chapman's repokt. 293 



tons may be very safely assumed as the small- 

 est amount of goods which will probably be 

 carried over its entire length each year by a 

 railroad. 



N.B. All stores forwarded by the Commissa- 

 riat and Ordnance Departments are trans- 

 mitted through the agency of the Indus 

 flotilla, and are consequently included in 

 the returns furnished by the Superintend- 

 ent. 



Before proceeding to the consideration of the 

 amount of passenger-traffic that may be ex- 

 pected upon a railway, I would quote an extract 

 from a letter from Captain Crawford, the Super- 

 intending Engineer Railway Department, Bom- 

 bay, on this head, which, though of the greatest 

 importance at home, has not always been al- 

 lowed a place in railway calculations in India, — 

 an omission arising from a general conviction 

 that natives would be slow to take advantage 

 of a new means of locomotion supposed to be 

 incompatible with their present habits, and, in 

 fact, much beyond their appreciation. 



Captain Crawford, in speaking of the experi- 

 mental line at Bombay, more than tln-ec months 



