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SAR 315 110 miles, the level falls at 165 feet or exactly eighteen inches per mile; the length in a straight line is 78 miles, so that the slope of the country is more than two feet per mile. The current averages about three miles per hour but there are places when during the rains it exceeds five. It is nowhere fordable after its junetion with the Sárda, before that it is a mere stream. The river channel is considerably beneath the watershed. The high lands of southern Kheri, for instance, run parallel to the river at a distance of about 15 miles. Mailai is 550 feet above the sea, the river at Srinagar Gbát 500, Gola Gokaranpith is 503 feet, the river at Delaha 467, Lakhimpur 484, the river at Chaknáthpur 427, Láharpur 453, the river at Aira 398; it thus appears that the channel is from 36 to 55 feet beneath the level of the high lands. It is thus useless for irrigation, except through a high level canal, The deltaie lands on its banks do not require irrigation except for certain crops. May 7,935 The quantity of water diseharge varies with the season. It is at its lowest in March. The averages of 1866-67-68-70 were- January 6,300 cubic feet per secoud. February 6,471 March 6,068 April 6,673 June 10,618 It may here be noted that the Gangos at Cawopore only discharges 5,000 feet. In 1869 the river being low beyond all precedent, the diseharge in Feb- ruary was only 3,818. The river itself is not a picturesque one; its banks are sandy, and the variations of its current are so uncertain and frequent that groves are not planted near it, or if they are, are generally soon carried off. At a distance from the channel, where the great river now sweeps along, there are many noble lagunes formed of old by its waters and now deserted; these present grand sweeps of still-water, with high sloping banks, crowned by magnifi- cent groves. The fish are the mahsir and the rohu ; the latter everywhere, the former are met with as far as Pachperi Ghát. Large boats, capable of carrying 1,200 maunds, or 45 tons, ascend to Maratıneha Gliát, and smaller of 500 maunds almost to Mandia Ghát. The unpublished maps prepared for the Sárda canal scheme exhibit the most recent changes of the river channel. That in Tieffenthaler, Vol. III., page 278, gives a fair chart of the river as it was about 1770 A.D. As to the previous aspect, in Akbar's time it did not join the Gogra till close to, about four miles above Fyzabad. There are no contemporary maps to my knowledge. SARENI Parganan-Tahsil LALGANJ—District RAE BATELI. — This par- gana takes its name from the chief town (Sareni), which was founded by Sárang Sáh of the Bais clan. It is asserted that all these parganas belonged to Bhars, but Abhai Chand of the Bais tribe drove them away, and acquired possession; all these were under one chief, with Daundia Khera the capital. The disunion, however, among the sons of Pirthi Chand resulted in the separation of the estate, and then Daundia Khera remained