So highly do the native officers of these three Oude _Komukee_ corps appreciate all the privileges and perquisites they enjoy, when out on duty under district officers, that they consider short periods of guard duty in the city, where they have none of them, as serious punishments.
The drainage about Seetapoor is into the small river Surain, which flows along on the west boundary, and is excellent; and the lands in and about the station are at all times dry.

The soil, too, is good; and the place, on the whole, is well adapted for the cantonment of a much larger force.
_March_ 13, 1850 .-- Khyrabad, east nine miles, over a plain of doomuteea soil with much oosur.

A little outlay and labour seem, however, to make this oosur produce good crops.

On entering the town on the west side, we passed over a good stone bridge over this little stream, the Surain; and to the east of the town is another over the still smaller stream of the Gond.

Khyrabad is not so well drained as Seetapoor, nor would it be so well adapted for a large cantonment.