'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from January 1847 to May 1849. Edited by the Secretary. Volume VIII.' [‎120] (229/496)

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down the Nerbudda from Mundlaisir to Baroche, made by Lieutenant
H. L. Evans, of the 17th Bombay Native Infantry, and Deputy Bheel
Agent, under my orders.
2. Lieutenant Evans is the first officer who has, when the river is
full, in the rainy season, or at any other time, examined the stream
continuously from Mundlaisir to Baroche. His report is a simple and
clear narrative of the impediments and difficulties which have to be
overcome before the Nerbudda can be made available for the trans^
port of merchandize and traffic.
3. Above Mundlaisir to Hoshungabad, a frontier military station
in the Saugor territory, there are two places where the passage of
boats is obstructed,—one at the falls at Mundhar, and the other at
Dharee. Annexed is a report from Lieutenant Keatinge, Bombay
Artillery, Assistant at Nimar, of the River from the Dharee falls to
Mundlaisir, which he has just visited, so that the information now sub-
mitted is, in fact, from the Dharee falls to the sea.
4. Above the Dharee falls to Chandghur, 12 miles, the natives
informed Lieutenant Keatinge that the riyer was navigable and
open.
5. Lieutenant Keatinge thus describes the river
“ Para - 5 - 0u Ae upper and eastern side of the falls of Dharee,
the rock slopes into the river at an angle of from one to two degrees,
and is so smooth and level that in most places a cart could even now
e drawn ovei it. Below the falls, the rock ends in abrupt and irregu*
ar steeps of from ten to fifty feet, and during the three days I spent
at Dharee I looked in vain for a slope to the water’s edge.
Withm ^ a ^ a 10 *le of the village there is a perpendicular rock
51 feet high, under which boats could come at all seasons, and if a
crane were placed on the top of it, goods of every description, and
even light boats, could, without the least difficulty, be drawn up and
e own. iom thence to the navigable part of the river above the
a Is, is only a distance of 1,490 yards, which could be made fit for
carts, at the cost of 4 or 500 Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. .”
ry, P c Jear, fiom this report, that boats cannot be got over the
aree falls, but from their foot Lieutenant Keatinge came in a boa
H 1 , boatm en, about the same number of attendants, and a good
at o baggage, to Ooncar Mundatta, a distance of 20 miles, in fi' e