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span each, and the latter of four arches of thirty- 

 eight feet each. 



Among the bridges in the frontier districts 

 are six over the Begaree Canal, each of forty 

 feet span, and the bund on the road between 

 Shikarpoor and Jacobabad, where have been 

 constructed numerous elliptical arches of twenty- 

 four feet span, executed by the native artificers 

 of the district. 



Besides these works of high importance in 

 the British territory, I must mention the excel- 

 lent military road extending along the left bank 

 of the Indus, through Meer All Moorad's terri- 

 tory. This road was marched by several bodies 

 of troo^^s whilst I was at Khyrpoor, and amongst 

 others by the Hon. Major Fraser's Liglit Field 

 Battery of Artillery ; on which occasion I re- 

 ceived a letter from the commanding officer ex- 

 j)ressing his perfect satisfaction at the attention 

 paid by the Meer's Kardars to the wants of his 

 people, by which the march of his battery had 

 been greatly facilitated ; that he had every- 

 where found the Meer's officers most obli<j:iDn: 

 in furnisliing supplies, which wore cheap and 

 plentiful ; that the road was excellent, and the 

 nullahs all bridged, so that his guns and tlieir 



