194 KHE Roads and communications. There are no metalled roads in the district except that from Sháhjahánpur to Sitapur, which passes for 21 miles through the south-west corner. One raised and bridged road runs froin Sitapur through Del to Lakhimpur,28 miles, thence to Gola, 20 miles, and thence to Muhamdi , 18 miles. The accompanying table shows the length and direction of each road, and also proves how inferior the communications are, as seven of the roads are useless for five months of the year. It is, no doubt, very costly to construct bridges in this district, not so much owing to the violence of the floods as to the alluvial nature of the soil, which affords no firm foundation, and which is liable every year to be pierced by new channels, which render the old bridges useless. Since the suppression of the mutinies many bridges have been built, including two over the Gumti; the cost of these works has in some instances been as high as Rs. 20,000. Kheri roads. Masonry bridges bridges. Number of Name of road. the sides Pile sarais on Number: REMARKS. El Length of road. Description of road. Large. Small. Large. Small. of road. Miles. 103 1 8 9 Unmetall- ed. Ditto 2 164 1 Lakhimpur to Sitapur. 2 Ditto to Mabewa, 3 Ditto to Kheri. + 3 Ditto tat 1.4 4 Ditto 1 11 Ore at Oel. Used through- out the year. Not much used. Practicablo through out the year. One at Si- Do.do. do. kandar 2- bed and the other at Muham- di. Do. do. do 4 Ditto via Mubamdi to Shahjaban - pur, 1 38 Ditto IO 1 440 5 Ditto ria Golg to Muhamdi. 6 Gola to Aliganj. 7 Do. to Kothár, 8 Lakhimpar to Babraich, 2 1 8 12 10 Ditto Ditto Ditto 06
PP . 21 Metalled.
Do. do. do. Do. do.. do. Not practica ble during the rains. One at Mai. Practicable kalganj. throughout the year; joins the road projected for railway Not practics- ble during the rains. Do, dodo 33 SPP Unmetall- ed.
16D 9) From the bound- ary of the Sitapur dis- trict to the Shahjahan pur bound- Ty. 10 Lakhimpur to Khairigarh. D Ditto via Ali gadj to Mai. láni. 121 Ditto to Ma- kalganj. 13 Gola to Bhúr... 14 Matera to Palia, 15 Lakhimpur to Siogábi. 36 Ditto 2 PP 1 ... 22 Ditto pe. 3 2 Do. do. do. 2 . Ditto Ditto Ditto . 36 171 49 2 ready. > Do. 2o. da. Do. do. ao. Do. do, de. 00 1
