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RESIDENCY AND MUSKAT POLITICAL AOBNCT POR 1878*79.
to the ruin of the landowncre and that of the ryots, who arc obliged by
compulsion to stay permanently in those spots.
A good deal of water is wasted in Persia owing to the long distances
it has very often to travel before reaching a land eligible for its security
against raids, &c., and to damages constantly sustained by watercourses,
which, owing to the social conditions of the country, it is very often
beyond the reach of the ryot to travel out of the jurisdiction of his
village to repair.
There also large tracts of fertile land which remain waste owing to
their proximity to the main roads, as no village having cultivations on
such spots can possibly prosper or enjoy the least immunity from tho
pestering visits of Government officials, and thefts and robberies com­
mitted by the Iliyat tribes ou their passage along the country thorough­
fares.