New pucka-wells would be required; and some low ground, near the south and north, would also require to be drained, as water lies in it during the rains.

There is excellent ground nearer the town on the same side, but the mango-groves are thick and numerous, and would impede the circulation of air.

The owners would, moreover be soon robbed of them were a cantonment, or civil station, established among or very near to them.

The town and site of any cantonment, or civil station, should be taken from the Kuteysura estate, and due compensation made to the holder, Seobuksh.
The town is a poor one; and the people are keeping their houses uncovered, and removing their property under the apprehension that Seobuksh will attack and plunder the place.

All the merchants and respectable landholders, over the districts bordering on the Tarae forest, through which we have passed, declare, that all the colonies of Budukh dacoits, who had, for many generations, up to 1842, been located in this forest, have entirely disappeared.