SINDH RAILWAY. 279 



C. * 



Fkom the Superintending Engineer to tlie 

 Commissioner in Sindli. 



EXTEACTS. 

 Sir, 



As the commerce and the traffic of the 

 country have increased, so also have the risk 

 and inconvenience of the existing means of 

 communication become more apparent ; and it 

 has now become absolutely necessary to im- 

 prove those means, in order to meet the urgent 

 demands of Government and of the public, for 

 the conveyance of stores and merchandise to 

 the countries through which the Indus and the 

 other rivers which fall into it flow, as well as 

 to enable the produce of those countries to be 

 brought to a market. 



During the last two years the necessity for 

 such means have become even more pressing : 

 unusually heavy falls of rain and high inun- 

 dations have closed the direct land route to 

 the river for many months in each year, 

 while the constant changes inseparable from 

 all Delta navigation threaten at no distant 



* From Audi'ew's Sindh Railway. 



