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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 21, p. 341.

12 U4HIKUL YA 34T right bank, within Midnapore District, by a continuous embankment 291 miles in length; and it is also embanked all along its left bank from its junction with the Gaighata Bakshi Khal to its union with the Hooghly river. The bordering lands are more or less inundated by the spring-tides in April and May, which leave behind destructive impregnations of salt, rendering them unfit for cultivation unless small defensive works are thrown up round the fields every year to keep the water out. Grass and hogla reeds (Typha elephantzna) are the ordinary produce, except in ears when the rains set in and close early, when a late rice crop can be planted in September. The Rflp- narayan is navigable throughout the year by native boats of 4 tons burden as high as Ghatal village in Midnapore District. It is not fordable at any season of the year within the limits of Hooghly and Howrah Districts. It has been . spanned by a fine bridge at Kolaghat, where it is crossed by the Bengal-Nagpur Railway. Rurki.-Subdivision, tahsil, and town in Saharanpur District, United Provinces. See ROORKEE. Ruserr,.-Town in the head-quarters subdivision of Darbbanga District, Bengal, situated in a5° 45' N. and 86° a' E., on the east bank of the Little Gandak, just below the former confluence of that river with the Baghmati. Population (igoi), 10,45. Owing to its position on the Little Gandak, RuserA was at one time the largest market in the south of the District ; but though it is still an important bazar, it has somewhat lost its importance since the opening of the railway. Rusera was constituted a municipality in x869. The income during the decade ending x9ox-z averaged Rs. 5,7oo, and the expenditure Rs. 4,900. In x903-4 the income, mainly derived from a tax on persons (or property tax), was Rs. 6,6oo; and the expenditure was Rs. 6,ooo. Rushikulya.-River in Ganjam District, Madras. It rises in the Rushimalo hill (from which it takes its name), near Daringabadi in the Chinnakimedi Maliahs, in x9° 55' N. and 84° 8' E., and runs south-east to Aska and thence south-east and east into the Bay of Bengal at Ganjam town, in ig' 22' N. and 85° 4' E. Its length is about xxs miles, and the towns on its banks are Surada, Aska, Puru- shottapur, and Ganjam. It is spanned at Aska by a fine masonry bridge of nineteen arches. It is joined,. by the Pathama near Surada, by the Bhaguva in Dharakota estate, by the Mahanad! at Aska, and by the Godahaddo in the Berhampur taluk. The river dries up in the hot season. At Aska and at Pratapuram near Purushottapur, where its channel turns :northwards for a short distance, a large festival is held every year in February or March, when thousands of people bathe in its' waters. The river is utilized for irrigation by means of a series of works