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and rice was being planted on a larger cultivated plain, traversed by an aqueduct obviously laid out for irrigation, but the water-supply appeared inadequate. D' Au plots were broken up, awaiting training. The paddy-rice looked low and withering, for want of water. Here and there an irrigated tract was luxuriant, & there was proceeding with the cultivation on the Eastern side of the valley.
These facts point to the conclusion that an adequate supply of water during the dry season is particularly, and materially valuable to the land; and that the Crown in granting land, moves in accordance with the original shivers' hand titles. The question is whether the Crown, when granting land, regards the occupancy of the soil, including the right to use the waters of the streams. Clearly they do, for if deprived of water for irrigation, the land would be, to say the least, much reduced in value.
If, for example, a watercourse were constructed abstracting ...
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