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INDIA. IN a recent number of the Revue générale des Sciences is an article on irrigation in India which is interesting as showing the impression made on the mind of a foreigner after an inspection of the great works that have been carried out under the British administration for mitigating the effects of famines and improving the condition of agriculture. In a report published a few years ago by Mr. Deakin, the Minister of Water Supply in Victoria, under the title of “Irrigated India,” Mr. Deakin stated that, in his opinion, after an inspection of the irrigation works in Italy, Egypt, and America, he was satisfied that there was no canal system in the world that could hold comparison with that of India, and expressed his surprise that so little was known of it. The area of land irrigated in India by canals amounts to about 30 millions of acres, six times that of Egypt, and nearly double that of the whole of the rest of the world. M. Chailley Bert, the writer of the article under notice, after spending considerable time in inspecting the various irrigation works, seems to have come to very much the same conclusion. He expresses his opinion that, after the principles of the general administration of the country, and the conduct of the English in India, there is nothing of more interest and more worthy of observation than the system of irrigation, the methods pursued in carrying out the works, and the results that are obtained.
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Irrigation Works . Nature 68, 404–406 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068404a0
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