Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers Volume 71 by Institution Of Civil Engineers
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Author: Institution Of Civil Engineers
Number of Pages: 202 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: Englishhttps://d4rri9bdfuube.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9781/2311/9781231176207.jpg
ISBN: 9781130155617
File size: 16 Mb
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ... workers, and use a spade and barrow well. From the other side of India, Cutchees come with carts; other tribes with bullocks and donkeys, to carry the earth in bags. For ordinary canal clearance the Sindee "harees," or cultivators, have to bo depended upon. They are independent and deceitful where work is concerned, and cheat in earthwork excavations; it takes a good deal of experience to detect their frauds. However, with a little tact they will, in an emergency, do work which no extra wages would induce them to do. The total area of the plains of Sind is about 20,689,000 acres, of which about 11,578,000 consist of barren land: the population was, in 1869, about 1,578,000; so that there are about 5-77 acres of cultivated or cultivable land per head of population. Irrigation is carried on by--1. Natural flow (" moke "); 2. Water raised by Persian wheels (" charkee "); 3. Eain (" baranee "). The principal crops are rice, cotton, jowaree, bajaree, till, (oilseed); and these are grown in the Khureef season, from May to October, when the Indus is in flood. Gram, wheat, barley, oilseeds are grown from November to May, principally on land that has been flooded during the inundation-season. A good deal of sugar-cane is grown in Lower Sind, but only on the banks of the Indus or perennial canals, as it requires plenty of water for eight months. The irrigable area of Sind, about 14,222 square miles, lies between the Indus and the rocky hilln on the west bank, and on the east, as far as the sand-hills to the north, and the desert and salt plains to the south. This area is intersected with a network of canals, considerably over 5,000 miles in aggregate length; these canals, with few exceptions, existed before the conquest of Sin...
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