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circumstances they will last as long as forty years. Water is generally at about 30 feet from the surface, and is drawn in the usual manner in a leathern bag worked by a pair of bullocks. In no case are two buckets used from one well. North of the Kaly^ni river kachcha wells, as a rule, cannot be dug.

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The district is rich in mango groves, the total area of these Groves. groves being no less than 43,172 acres. Up to the present time the trees have not been subjected to any destructive agency beyond a few being The people love their groves both felled for burning bricks for bridges. for the fruit they yield, and still more on account of their grateful shade, and when land is taken up for public purposes it is found that proprietors part with their groves with more reluctance than with their cultivated land. Under the liberal orders of Government, that 10 per cent, of the area planted with groves shall not be assessed, there is no reasonable excuse for their destruction. Climate.

namely 1865.

—The average

rainfall for the last

nine years has been 41 inches,