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 400 SRI enters pargana Srinagar at the village of that name. It appears to cross over to the north side of the river between Buseha and Srinagar, for we find a high and steep bank bounding the Chauka on the north in the villages of Sona Adlabad and Murra Munri in pargana Nighásan, and running off thence into pargana Dhaurahra. There are ridges of varying height along both banks of the southern Chauka throughout the whole of its course, from Srinagar where, though now dry, its waters used to leave the Chauka to Rahria where, conveying the waters of the Kandwa and its tributaries which it has received on its way, it rejoins the Chauka. There is this difference between the ridges on the north and the south bank of the southern Chauka, the ridge on the south bank gradually rises into a still higher tract of country which reaches as far as the river Ui; the ridge on the north bank gradually sinks into a very low plain inter- sected by ravines and covered with marshes. This plain has an average width of about three miles, and it then rises almost imperceptibly towards the north into another ridge which bounds the southern bank of the Chanka. The Chauka seems to resemble deltaic rivers in its formation of these parallel ridges along its sides, the usual course of such rivers is to cast up silt along their sides, thus gradually making the lands through which they flow higher than those somewhat further off. So much for the river Chauka. The Ul, which bounds the pargana on the south, is a very different river. It has a low tarái on both sides varying in width from a quarter of a mile to half a mile, and this tarái it overflows in the autumn rains, but never gets beyond it. It is a slow sluggish stream with a small volume of water, an average width of twenty yards, and an average depth of 10 feet. Be- yond the tarái the land rises by a gentle ascent into a flat plain of fertile soil, which has an average width of 3 or 4 miles, and bounds the Ul along its whole course in this pargana. In this plain are situated all the 51 villages which have been transferred to this pargana from Kheri, and this tract bears a greater resemblance to pargana Kheri than to the rest of pargana Srinagar. After the Chauka and the Ul the Kandwa remains to be mentioned; this river has been shortly described in the article on pargana Bhúr. It enters this pargana at Mitra Bhoji on the west frontier at a distance of three miles from the Ul, and flowing parallel to that river for ten miles, joins the southern Chauka at Mahewa as has been mentioned above. On its way it is joined by a little stream called the Kutnaiya on the south, and by the Janái on the north. The Janái enters the Srinagar pargana at Bisaiyapur on the Bhúr frontier, and after receiving the waters of the Mihanni and the Kusaiya joins the Kandwà a mile above Mahewa. The tract of country through which flow these small streams gradually converging to one point like the spokes of a wheel is low and marshy and lies on a level intermediate between the high fertile plain along the UI and the gúnjar country bounding the Chauka. It is evident then that the geography of the pargana at once suggests the chaks into which it should be divided. First we have the plain along