Ways and Works in India: Being an Account of the Public Works in that Country from the Earliest Times Up to the Present Day |
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abutments acres aqueduct arches Attock bank base-line Bengal Bombay branch bridge Calcutta Callian canal capital carried centre channel coast commenced completed connected construction cost cross cubic feet Delhi delta depth diameter distance districts Doab East Indian Railway embankment engineer extends feet high feet long feet wide floods Ganges gauge ghâts girders Government Grand Trunk Road harbour height important inches India Indian Peninsula Railway Indus iron irrigation Jubbulpore Jumna Karachi Kistna line of railway Madras masonry means measured ment metre gauge miles long millions Nagpur native navigation nearly necessary Orissa passing Peshawur piers pipes placed portion Provinces Punjab rails rainfall reservoir river road side signals Sironj situated sleepers slope sluices spans square miles Standard Gauge station stone sunk surface survey Sutlej tanks tion tons total length town traffic triangles tunnel valley viaducts wall water-supply weir whole width