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Selections from the Records of the Government of India Lieut Colonel R Baird Smith No preview available - 2016 |
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30th April acres annas area irrigated area of cultivation area of irrigation BAIRD SMITH bank produce Barrage biswas boats Bombay Engineers Cairo Canal beegahs Canal Officers Canal water Captain Fife Cawnpore Terminal channels commenced completed construction Cost of delivering crops Damietta ditto ditto Division Ganges Canal Divisional Officers Divisional Total Eastern Jumna Canal escape rivers Etayah Terminal excavations expense feddan Fussil Government Hurdwar increase Indirect Canal Irrigation inundation irrigating villages lakhs land LIEUT.-COLONEL Lieutenant Merrick lines low season Lower Central Division Lower Egypt masonry measurement rates miles of rajbuha navigation Nile nominal roll North-Western Provinces Northern Division obtained Persian wheel progress pymanah quantity of water raising water Regulating Bridges Report revetments right embankment Roorkee Rosetta Rubbee season Rupees sale of water Shadoof Sind Sindh Statement of Revenue steam-power Superintendent supply of water total area Tukkavi advances Tukkavi demands Upper Central Division water issued water rates whole Zemindars
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Page 46 - I have now the honor to lay before you the result of my examination. 2. The Nile in Upper Egypt has a rise of about 30 feet, and at Cairo, it is about 24 feet, from its lowest to its highest level.
Page 42 - ... the public for this purpose, although extensively used by the Government for the transport of materials. Colonel Baird Smith states that the canal closes its first year of work (1855-56) with an aggregate revenue, from all sources, of rather more than Rs. 60,000, having watered during the year about 55,000 acres of land, and having placed beyond the risk of serious damage from drought, an area of cultivation extending over about 166,000 acres, distributed among 1,134 villages.
Page 17 - There were scarcely even fluctuations in its surface level, and there have consequently been entire contentment on the part of the zemindars with the supplies furnished to them, much confidence in their permanency created, and not a single instance of failure of contract by reason of deficiency of water delivered.
Page 46 - As the banks of the Nile, from the first cataract to the sea, consist of clay and sand, the channel of the river is continually changing.