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pleasing aspect to the officer who, during the entire hot and rainy seasons, has been confined to a badly-ventilated and badly-smelling cutcherry. It has many of irrigation.

  • ^ *^® features of a Tarai country, as, for instance,

the great number of bamboos grown in it testifies that the water lies everywhere close to the surface artificially constructed tanks and natural water-holes and swamps are innumerable, and many small streams flow through the district. Indeed, in some years the rainfall is excessive, and, on the whole, the country is very far indeed from requiring a canal to assist its irrigation.

Fyzabad

is

amply supplied with the means

Irrigation abundant.