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120 Shitábi Ghat, when the Clauka adds above 6,000 cubic feet per second at Katá Ghát, yet at Bahramghat the united volume of water only amounts to 18,000 cubic feet. The Ganges at Cawnpore is 5,000, at Hardwar 8,000, the Jumna 3,500, the Sutlej nearly 5,000, the Sárda 63,901, but the facts concerning the Kauriala are not so well ascertained. Probably the Kauriála at Rámnagar does not now discharge above 4,000 cubic feet, if so much; it is not above two hundred yards broad, and, except in one narrow channel, not above four feet deep.

The principal fish in the Kauriála are the rohu, maksír, mullet, hili trout, and the bichwa.

The river has not changed its course materially except below Shitábi Ghát, where it has concentrated its waters in the eastern channel, abandoning much land in Matehra ; also further down it has trended eastwards at Mallih, north of the Daháwar, loaving bare large breadths of sand which in time have become covered with jháo (tamarix dioica).

If we are to believe Tieffenthaler, it once flowed only three miles east of the Khairigarh fort, from which it is now eight miles distant, but ho states that the river is there called Kenár or Kheuár; it is probable that there was a lateral channel of that name. The abandoned course of what was once a largo river runs under Singáhi in Khairigarh. The slope of the river is about two feet per mile from Shisha Páni to Rámnagar Ghát, which is 449 feet above the sea; thence to Mallápur, 375 feet above the sea, it is about one foot per mile. (See also articles Gogra and Sárda for a further account of this river in its lower course.) The affluents of the Kauriála are described in the Bahraich district article.

KEWANI River —District .—The Kewani issues from the Jumaita Tál near the village of Jumaita in pargana Kheri, district Kheri, four miles south-west of Kheri. It takes a south-south-easterly course, and at a distance of forty miles as the crow flies, falls into the Chauka at a village called Umrápur. For a little distance from its source the stream is narrow and shallow; it deepens as it roaches the Chauka. Breadth about 50 feet. Extreme depth Average In the rains,

The water begins to dry up in November near its source. Except for two months in the rains, when dongis are used, the stream is always fordable, Velocity cannot be ascertained till the rains. It is considerable, for I am told that men help each other in crossing to resist the current. It is not navigable. Sanda, where a large bazár is held twice a week, and Nabinagar are large villages on its banks. It produces the following fish:— parhin, gent, roha, girai, bhúr. The peoplo call the stream the Diwána nadi on account of its wild tortuousness.

KHAIRABAD Pargana—Tahsil —District .—Khairabad pargana is twenty miles long from north to south, and eleven in width from