 | East India Company, John Stuart Mill - Great Britain - 1858 - 148 pages
...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...drought, an area of cultivation extending over about 166,000 acres, distributed among 1,134 villages. In the Punjab, the canals are of two kinds, Punjab... | |
 | Edward Henry Nolan - 1878 - 1028 pages
...rather mere than sixty thousand rupees, having watered during the year, fifty-five thousand acres, and having placed beyond the risk of serious damage from drought, an »rea of cultivation, of one hundred and sixty sii thousand acres, distributed among one thousand one... | |
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... 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... 