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quiries on which I have been engaged, that 

 I cannot close this report, especially since the 

 examination shows that no financial objection 

 exists to either project (canal or railway), with- 

 out respectfully urging, through you, upon 

 Government the advisability of at once secur- 

 ing to the province and Upper India the mani- 

 fold benefits which the adoption of either 

 scheme, preferably, doubtless, the latter (the 

 railway), is unquestionably calculated to be- 

 stow ; and I would conclude by trusting, that 

 the statistical information collated and em- 

 bodied in the documents now submitted will in 

 some measure excuse the length to which this 

 report has necessarily been extended. 



I have the honour to be, &C.5 



(Signed) W. Chapman, 

 Lieutenant, Engineers, 

 On Special Duty, Scinde. 

 Kurrachee, 



November 1st, 1853. 



