Gorakhpur Supplementary notes and statistics to Volume XXXII of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh

in some cases." Page 3 line 17 alt"district " add " A scrutiny of the height of the G. T. Survey Stations and an examination of the areas concerned shows existence of a line of depression from the norteast corner of the district near and north of Domakhand across the NagwaSonari forest to the Rohin valley so that in the case of any heavy flood on the Great Gandak the water of that river s [...] On the Tucker bandh on the main road to Azamgarh at the first bridge 14 miles from Gorakhpur the water reached the roadway and the down-stream portion of one of the piers of the bridge fell in. [...] Since then the area under spring crops has increased more rapidly than that under autumn crops the average for the last five years being 1 286 715 acres under the fOrpier and 1 574 066 acres under the latter the tali() of the rabi to the kharif being 82 while in 1910-11 the rabi area was as high as 1 444 828 acres and the kharif area only 1 515 063 acres. [...] In Padrauna the proportion of kharif to rabi is as 100 to 61 and an almost equally marked preponderance is to be found Maharajganj in spite of the fact that of recent years the increase in the rabi has been nearly double that in the kharif in fact the prportion of autumn to spring crops in Maharajganj was.55 for the' 10 years ending 1907-08 as compared with 64 for the five folloing years [...] The various operatives concerned in the work ar" The Pakwaha he who superintends the boiling of the juice and keeps up the fire.