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The Jamuriha and Retk—The Jamuriha and Reth, both in the Nawabgani tahsil, are the only other streams in this district worthy of notice. Their general characteristics are the same steep and rugged banks broken by innumerable ravines, mere drains in dry weather but becoming angry There are no towns torrents during the rains ; they flow into the Gumti. either by fishliving communities large no and rivers, the of banks the on

eries or

by river

traffic*

Means of communication afforded.— Details

concerning these rivers,

and the traffic upon them, wiU be given under their several names. The Gogra flows for forty-eight miles on the border of the district the dry weather discharge is 19,000 cubic feet. The principal ferries are at Kaithere is a boat-bridge during the cold seathi, Kamiar, and Paska Ghat



son at Bahramghat. flows for 105 miles through, or on the border of the district, is so circuitous that the direct distance from the point of course but entrance to that of exit is only forty-two miles ; it is not therefore so useful for navigation, and it lies too low for irrigation ; its dry weather discharge is 500 cubic feet. Its water is actually at a lower level than that At the junction of the Kaly^ni the former is only 301 feet of the Gogra. above the sea at Rudauli, the watershed between it and the Gogra the

The Gumti its



altitude

is

340 feet; and at Kaithi Ghat the Gogra is 314

feet.

The drainage of Bara Banki is very good. The level of the watershed on the north of the district, between the Gumti and the Gogra, is about 414 feet near Fatehpur ; thence it sinks to 340 feet at Rudauli. The level of the broad, 337 feet deep, rushing along with a velocity of 574 miles per hour and with a, discharge of 51,540 cubic feet per second. In ordinary monsoons the highest discharge is about a quarter less than this.
 * In the rains of 1872, the river Kalyani presented a vast volume of water 269 feet

The river is crossed of 60 feet.

by the railway with a

The flood discharges by the railway

crossed

of

girder bridge with (6) six openings, each

other rivers of the district were as follows where they are