WANT OF WATEK. 73 



wanting to forward on troops and stores to 

 Mooltan. 



One of the main wants of Kurrachee is plenty 

 of good water ; at present it is very bad, and 

 gave many of our servants diarrhoea ; but that 

 at Kotree is far worse, the wells there being so 

 impregnated with salt, that this article is pro- 

 cured for the market by the evaporation of well 

 water. The project for a canal between tlie 

 Indus and Kurrachee is declared to be essential 

 to the full success of the railway to Kotree, and 

 it certainly is no less essential to the fair deve- 

 loj)ment of the resources of Kurrachee as a sea- 

 port, and to the agricultural prospects of the 

 vast and at present unproductive plains in the 

 vicinity of the Kurrachee market. Two years 

 ago the want of water was severely felt in the 

 city, and the population having since increased, 

 the want has natm-ally become more pressing. 

 To supply wholesome water for the troops and 

 inhabitants, Sir Charles Najoier projected turn- 

 ing the small river Mullear from a distance of 

 twelve or fourteen miles into the town and 

 cantonments of Kurrachee. For this purpose 

 he caused levels to be taken and a plan laid 

 down. The water was further to be conveyed 



