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aiid so must Europeans in the employment of railways, &c. ; 

 for instance, the engine-drivers, whose duties perhaps require 

 them to be more exposed than any other class of Europeans 

 in India. 



The new barracks are, as I said, unbearably hot ; we cannot 

 of course now say whether such buildings would have been 

 so thirty or fifty years ago, when European troops lived in 

 barracks of a very much inferior description, or what are now 

 considered so ; but there may be some of the old barracks in 

 existence in which European troops formerly lived, and if they 

 are now unfit for Europeans to live in, it is strong presumptive 

 proof that the climate has become hotter and deteriorated. 



Cooling apparatus is now being fitted to the railway carriages 

 in Upper India, it being found that numerous deaths occurred 

 from heat apoplexy, which the new appliances are to prevent. 

 The cost of heat from an . s. d. point of view, i.e. the amount 

 of money annually spent in contrivances to mitigate it, must 

 amount to a large sum, and is increasing. 



The question of stationing more European troops in the hills 

 has been more prominently brought forward as the climate has 

 become hotter. They are to be sent to the hills to be away from 

 the heat. The expense of providing accommodation for them 

 in the hills will be great in the first instance, and the effects 

 may be injurious in many ways to the country, and, after all, 

 the British soldier in general prefers the plains, notwithstanding 

 the drawbacks and inconveniences occasioned by the heat. I 

 hope, however, to show how the heat of Upper India can be 

 mitigated, and the climate so improved that there shall be no 

 cause for removing the European troops from the plains, where 

 they are more wanted. Supposing hill stations were made, it 

 is as well to consider what would be the result of stationing a 

 greater number of European troops in the hills. The sites of 

 the stations will have to be cleared for barracks and parade- 



