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EXTEACTS. 



Dated \Qth Novemher, 1853. 



My Lord, 



I have now the honour to transmit a 

 letter from Major Tm^ner, Superintendmg 

 Engineer, forwarding the reports, in which 

 Lieutenant Chapman details the results of the 

 season's work, and the plans with which lie 

 illustrates them. 



Lieutenant Chapman has taken no credit for 

 the certain increase of trade. 



It will in all probability, by the unaided 

 result of causes now in operation, be 60 or 80 

 per cent, greater than at present before the line 

 can be possibly opened, however speedily it 

 may be commenced ; and the making, and 

 still more the opening, of the line will of 

 course give it a vast impetus. 



Nor has Lieutenant Chapman taken credit 

 for anything which was not before him offici- 

 ally, c. g. the vast amount of commissariat and 

 other government stores now in progress to 

 the Panjaub, or expected, such as 10,000 barrels 

 of porter this year, 3000 tons of iron expected 

 next season for a bridge at Attock — facts 



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