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 Dufferin Bridge 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 Nagpur native navigation nearly necessary opened Orissa passing Peshawur piers pipes placed portion Punjab rails rainfall reservoir river road side signals Sironj situated sleepers slope sluices spans square miles Standard Gauge station stone surface survey Sutlej tanks terminal stations tion tons total length town traffic triangles tunnel valley viaducts wall water-supply weir whole width
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Page 223 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy, that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchant.
Page 238 - I would put a cross on the concern. It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine down to ten miles an hour ; but it must be done, and I did my best. I had to place myself in that most unpleasant of all positions — the witness-box of a parliamentary committee.
Page 238 - I was in education, and made up my mind that he should not labour under the same defect, but that I would put him to a good school, and give him a liberal training. I was, however, a poor man ; and how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours...
Page 238 - But I put up with every rebuff, and went on with my plans, determined not to be put down. Assistance gradually increased — improvements were made every day— and to-day a train, which started from London in the morning, has brought me in the afternoon to my native soil, and enabled me to take my place in this room, and see around me many faces which I have great pleasure in looking upon.
Page 127 - ... that on both sides of the canal down to Hissar, trees, of every description, both for shade and blossom, be planted, so as to make it like the canal under the tree in Paradise ; and that the sweet flavour of the rare fruits may reach the mouth of every one, and that from these luxuries a voice may go forth to travellers calling them to rest in the cities, where their every want will be supplied.
Page 223 - Another thing, that is remarkable, is their wayleaves ; for, when men have pieces of ground between the colliery and the river, they sell leave to lead coals over their ground ; and so dear that the owner of a rood of ground will expect 20/. per annum for this leave.
Page 227 - Observations on a General Iron Railway, or Land Steam Conveyance, to supersede the Necessity of Horses in all Public Vehicles : Showing its vast Superiority in every respect over the Present Pitiful Methods of Conveyance by Turnpike Roads and Canals.