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 SIT 343 Smaller streams.-Between these two rivers the country is cut up by nuincrous smaller streams, which are all fordable in the dry weather, and the chief of which are the Bahái, the Gubraiya, the Yaba, the Ghagghar, and the Sukni ; this part of the district is known as the Gogra Chauka Duáb, and is subject to frequent and heavy foods as mentioned above. U, Kewani, Sumli.---West again of the Chåuka is the Ul flowing into the Kewáni, and the Sumli, all three fordable during the dry season, but navigable for country boats during the rest of the year. old bed of the Chauka.--We then meet with a narrow strip of moist land overlooked by a ridge of earth of from 20 to 40 feet in height, and running down from Kheri through Sitapur to the Bara Banki district; this strip of land was apparently once the bed of the Chauka (now 9 miles to the east), and the ridge of earth its right bank. The river is said to have changed its course about 150 years ago. Gon.--Twelve miles further west we meet with the Gon, an inconsider- able stream, and not used as means of communication. Saráyan. It flows into the Saráyan at Pírnagar 14 miles south of Sitapur through wbich town that river passes; and the united stream goes on in a south-easterly direction until it meets the Gumti at Hindaura Ghát, West of the Saráyan, and flowing into it, is a small stream, the Retha, and still further west is the Retia, also a small stream, joining the Gumti at Dúdhanman, Gumti.- Last of all comes the Gumti, a good sized navigable river, and at the same time fordable here and there in the dry season. It flows down through Lucknow, Sultanpur, and Jaunpur until it meets the Ganges at Benares. Of the above rivers the Chauka, the Gogra, and the Gumti. described at length under their proper headings, are navigable for boats of from five to twelve hundred maunds ; the Kewáni, and the Saráyan are navigable by boats of one hundred maunds. Their beds are all sandy. There are no towns upon their banks, nor is there any trading population. Formerly only tlie feudal lords resided near the rivers in order to command the passage by their cannon, and compel trading vessels to pay for permission to proceed. The Gogra is fordable nowhere; all the others are fordable in innumerable places; the Chauka about five years ago changed its course, and the main stream now joins the Kauriála or Gogra at Mallapur. The traffic on them is detailed under that heading. Details of the area of the district as shown by the khasra survey.- The khasra survey of the district was cummenced in the cold weather (1863-64,) and was completed in 1866-67. This survey was superintended by the settlement officer, and is not to be confounded with the survey con- ducted by the revenue surveyor which preceded it. The former goes much more carefully into details than the latter, but both correspond pretty exactly in their results for the whole district,