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Water though not so close to the surface as in the Tirhi. found at a moderate depth of from ten to seventeen feet, and a serviceable well of burnt bricks imbedded in mud may be built for Rs. SO, and will last on an average for as many years. The superior dryness of the soil renders irrigation common, and the crops more certain than in those districts where the extreme moistness of the surface causes artificial watering, when followed by late winter rains, to be fatal to the spring Statistics applied to the whole pargana would be vitiated by produce. the existence of two sxich totally different tracts as the populous centre and its surrounding line of jungle, and would be equally inapplicable to either. I propose, therefore, to consider them separately a course which is rendered easy by the fact that the forest tract has been parcelled out by Government into a number of grants, which are not yet assessed for revenue, and whose settlement returns are consequently kept separately. The revenue-yielding tract covers an area of 30,303 acres, or little more than three-fifths of the whole, and is divided into 119 demarcated villages. Of this, 18,877 acres, or 62 per cent, of the whole, is under cultivation. Half of the tilled land, or 9,016 acres, bears two crops, and the area under each kind of produce is exhibited in the appended table Gogra and the

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