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 106 PAR Ferries.--For about eight months of the year the Sai is in most places easily fordable. During the rainy season, when the stream rises, the zamindars along the banks make their own arrangements, by which boats are available for the crossing of foot-passengers at po less than thirty points. The only available crossing for animals and wheeled traffic during the rains is over the recently built masonry bridge at Bela. Two ferries under the administration of the Deputy Commissioner of Partabgarh ply on that portion of the Gumti which forms the boundary of the district, and are farmed at an annual income of Rs. 325. Each is distant from the other about one mile anly. That known as the Biráhimpur ferry is a landing and lading station for traffic carried along the Patti road, which meets the imperial road between Fyzabad and Allababad at a village called Nawabganj, two and a half miles from the sadr bazar, also for traffic tra- versing the Jaunpur and Sultanpur road, which intersects the former road at the village af Sonpura, about two miles from the ferry. The other ferry within the limits, on this side of the village Mahraura, has been for some time past used only as a passenger ferry, and the traffic registrar has been lately removed from the spot. Ganges ferries.--There are several ferries on the Ganges within the limits of this district. I shall mention the principal ones only. The highest is the Kálákánkar ferry, which is a considerable grain lading sta- tion. Below this again, some four miles or so, is the Manikpur ferry, which is kept for passenger traffic principally. Proceeding almost due south for another five miles we come to Gutni, another passenger ferry. Lastly, at a distance of some ten miles further on is the Jahanabad ferry, which is likewise kept more for the convenience of foot passengers than for goods traffic. All these ferries are under the administration of the North- Western Provinces authorities. * Roods, bridges, and traffic.—The district is now well opened up by roads. Exclusive of twenty-two and a half miles of the imperial road, which con- nects the military stations of Fyzabad and Allahabad, and which passes through the headquarters, there are 342 miles of good second class roads. These have been entirely bridged, save at four points only, where the Sai, Sakrui, Pareya, and Bakláhi respectively require large and solid masonry bridges to withstand the opposing force of the current in the rains, each of which will necessitate same amount of delay, to say nothing of money, My predecessar's remarks on the roads and traffic of the district here find a suitable place. « General roads.-There is but one first-class road in this district, vie., that one which runs from Fyzabad to Allahabad. This was begun soon after the re-conquest of the province, and is a military road joining the two cantonments named above, which are ninety-six miles apart. There are only twenty-two and a half miles of this road in the Partabgarh district, which it traverses in its breadth, entering it at the village of Dharodi, and leaving it at the village of Dehlúpur. There are two road bungalows, one at Bela, and one at Biknápur, some eleven miles vinces and 40 per cent, to Oudh,
 * The receipts are divided in the proportion of 60 per cent. to the North-Western Pro-