'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from January 1847 to May 1849. Edited by the Secretary. Volume VIII.' [‎142] (251/496)

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“ Q. Can men be procured about Mokree to assist you with your boats?
“A. Plenty, at three and four annas per day.
« Q t What water at commencement of the fall ?
“ A. Two hands (three feet), and above Mokree fall 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 12
hands, (as much as three fathoms.)
“ Q. How do you act coming back over the Mokree fall ?
“ A. Empty the boats at the fall, and as there is not then sufficient water to
float the boats for about four or five hundred feet, they are launched along a
smooth bed of stones, which are very slippery, being covered with a grassy sub
stance, and they are guided down the fall with little trouble, when, the boats being
re-loaded, proceed with ease to Chaundode in two and three days.
“ Q. Have you ever seen or heard of boats in great danger of being lost going
up the fall ?
“A. No.
“ Q. Can boats go up above Dunneer P
“ A, Yes.
“ Q. Why is trade not carried on above that place ?
<( A. Because of the thieves, who would not pay above half the price they
would bargain to give for what we carry.
“ I have measured one of the boats at Chaundode employed in the trade to
Mokree and above. Her length twenty-two feet, breadth four teet ten inches,
depth two feet, her bottom quite flat.
“ August 20£/a. Beached Linnore. Learnt there is a trade to Mokree and above:
their cargoes are carried to Chaundode in large boats, when they are put into the
toonies and proceed as afore-mentioned.
<i August 2olh. Entered the Bowapearra Ghaut, where we met with much
difficulty from a heavy fresh and unfavorable wind. On September 1st, we reach
ed Ramnapore, since which time we got on pretty well, until the fresh commenced,
which compelled us to return to BarGche.’*
Lieutenant Anderson (the report of whose journey between Mundleysir and
4th. Lieut, Ander- Tulluckwara has already been given,) concludes the account o
son in 1842. his trip as follows:
(( I embarked at Tulluckwara on the morning of the 5th, and arrived at > a
roche on the 7th, having performed the entire journey from Mundleysir in twe ve
days not including the delays at Chiculdah and Kukranuh, and I am convince^
that I should have accomplished it in less time had I been permitted to P roce
altogether by water.”
The following extract from the report drawn up by Captain Dangerfield, a
to be found in Appendix II. of Malcolm’s Central India, gives some valua e
interesting information regarding the bed and vicinity of the Nerbudda, an
well find a place here :— # ^
<( The banks of the Nerbudda for a considerable distance between Mundleysir
Chiculdah are from forty to seventy feet high, an c ^
independent of a thin upper layer of rich vegeta e
ot two distinct strata of alluvium ; the upper, w 101
light coloured, contains a great quantity ot altl collin ion
and is strongly impregnated with muriate of so( a ° r aen t
salt, which tne natives extract by lixiviation, an , SU near the
evaporation by the sun, in shallow compartmeu s .
banks, and sell it to the poorer classes, particularly the Bheels, in the n 5
hood. This stratum is usually from thirty to forty feet thick. 1 ...
“The one on which it reposes, and from which it is divided by as
marked horizontal line, and a difference of colour, (this last being ot a ic
Extract from Capt.
Dangerfield’s Report
on the Geology, &c.
of Central India
Vide Appendix II.
Malcolm’s Central
India.