3. A Nītimañjarī Quotation Identified
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"Having been directed by the Irrigation to sow any land uncovering in the basin of Bani Sami, and we having done so, they have shut fast the lock at Abu Tij. The water has overflowed the cultivation and drowned most of it, and the time for sowing the rest of the basin, which lies to the west of the railway, upwards of 6,000 acres, is past, so that it has become profitless for cultivation. And we were expecting the end of the world on the 13th inst., according to the newspaper reports, but as we still remain alive we beg that we may be assisted by having the above viewed, and that the drain may be opened at once. Or else that we may be excused from cultivating the land, and that its taxes may be remitted, lest we lose both the seeds and the Government impost without fruit. " From the cultivators of Nukhailah " (a small village near Assyut).