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are small; for instance, 8 miles of the course of the "Sarju have. been let for years for Rs. 40, now raised to Rs. 100 per annum, and the lessee has only planted Narkul seed in his property. None of the rivers have
been embanked or dammed.
The Sarju offers great facilities the old course of this river forms a loop as it were, leaving the Gogra at Khairi Ghat and rejoining it at Kamyar Ghat it might easily be made navigable for the whole of the year.
At the
north-east corner of the map lies the only bit of genuine Tarai country in Bahraich, viz., the Durgagur iMqa and T "1 '
- ^® northern portion of Bhinga. To these must be
added the Tulsipur villages transferred from Gonda. This tract of land is separated from the valley of the R^pti by a belt of forest 20 mUes long and about 5 broad, which follows the line of that river. It lies very low, and is a great rice-producing area, being, during the rains, almost continuously under water. It is drained by a number of small hill streams, which, though almost dry in the cold season, bear a very different appearance in the rains. These ultimately all join the Kaihan which falls into the R^pti, about 8 miles above the confluence of the Rapti and Singhia.
Th
Bh' ^^ <i sipur Tarai*
The
and swamps
of the district have been named already as being evidently the result of the scouring of the Lakes and swamps. q^^^ The largest of them, Bagh'el Tal, is a fine sheet of water 2^ square miles in extent. The Ganaur and Anarkali lakes each measure about 450 acres, the Nigria Jhil 380 acres. To these may be added Maila Tal, 150 acres, not far from Rahwa, Mde Tal, in the Rapti valley, 85 acres, and Sita-dohar Tal, 380 acres, 4 miles west of Ikauna. The last mentioned owes its existence partly to the Buddhist mounds and m.onuments on its banks, the materials of which have all been excavated from this lake most of them are navigable by flat-bottomed boats.
chief lakes
The Bahraich Torests
Naipdl frontier, and are for the most P^"^ continuations of the tracts of jungle included within that territory.
forests lie along the
They have an area of 281 square miles, and geographically may be divided into five sections, though departmentally there are seven divisions.
—
The Bharthdpur Forests. These have an area 1st. and are included between the Kauriala and the Girwa.
of 13 square miles,
—
The Bharmdnpur Forest. This with the Ainchwa or Babai 2ncl. jungles forms the watershed of the Kauriala and Sarju. The area is 173 square miles.
—
The Chakia Jungle. This lies on the western bank, of the high 3rd. ground which forms the watershed of the Sarju and Rapti.
—
The Charda or Bhuria Jungles. These lie on the eastern bank same ridge, and look down upon the Duab included between the Bhakla and Rapti. They form a small and not very valuable section, the Aith.
of the
area being only 13 square miles.
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