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 — PYZ the last stage. The There are ten ndlas.

first

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bridged, but the second has only a ferry.

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3rd. ^That which connects Fyzabad with Rae Bareli in Oudh. This passes only for thirty-one miles throughout this district. The stages are .

Deoria (camping ground known as Baron) ten miles from Fyzabad, Milkipur ten miles further, and Huliapur eleien miles. There are no rivers, but two nalas.

The

on the Fyzabad branch of the line has not been largely developed yet; the line was opened from. Nawabganj Kaiiway. ^^ Fyzabad on 25th November 1872. In the first halfyear the number of arrivals at and departures from Fyzabad came to The railway was further opened to Akbarpur, and now communi73,200. cation between Benares, Fyzabad and Lucknow is complete. The river takes up the goods traffic, and in consequence it is not what might be expected from Fyzabad, being only 6,846 tons in the half-year. This traffic consists generally of wheat and rice for the Lucknow aiid Cawnpore markets. Neither passenger nor goods traffic has yet been developed -at traffic .

the stations in the

district.

The

other rivers are the Tons,. which is formed by the confluence of the Bisoi and the Madha, and the Majhoi, which forms the Rivers and lakes. boundary between this district and Sultanpur. The Tons is navigable in the rains up to Akbarpur by boats carrying five tons. Its banks are steep, and in many places covered with lisar, in others fringed with jungle. The banks of the Gogra are about 25 feet above the lowwater level. They are never flooded, but there is a breadth of low land lying along the river which is submerged every rains. In the rains of 1872 the river Tons presented a vast volume of water 672 feet broad, 30'3 feet deep, rushing along with a velocity of 3 '94 miles per hour, and with

In ordinary monsoons the feet per second. about a quarter less than this.

a discharge of 55,181 cubic highest discharge

is

There are no large jhils or lakes. There are no fishing toWns; the unimportant that their produce has not been valued by the

fisheries are so

settlement

.

officer.

in the marshes, but the singhara, or water-nut, which in western Oudh, is unknown here, except in the imme"S^thi" rice, so called because it can be cut diate vicinity of Fyzabad. also grown near the rivers Gogra and Tons., sown, is is after it sixty days

Wild rice is grown

is

,

so

common

The river is crossed by the railway with a girder bridge with twelve The flood discharges of the other rivers of the openings, e'ach of 60 feet. follows: as district are

Eiyer.