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If Messrs. Burghall and Co. or others, will not arrange to 

 send the carriage by rail, packed with the travelling luggage 

 (which they would find it their interest to do, for the accom- 

 modation of the public) but will only arrange to have it 

 ready at Arcot, the traveller should take those additional 

 pockets, and a packet of tacks and a hammer, and fix them 

 himself at that place. 



At Arcot, there is a very comfortable Hotel ; but the tra- 

 veller should, after arranging for his transit, write to the 

 respectable native proprietor of it, intimating his intention 

 of being there by the train of the day ; and, should Messrs. 

 Burghall and Co. or the other proprietors of carriages, decline 

 to send his conveyance from Madras, he should not omit to 

 include in his letter to the hotel-keeper, directions to have 

 his transit carriage waiting the arrival of the train ; as the 

 present hotel is about 5 miles from the Railway station, and 

 the Terminus is at Amoor, beyond Arcot : and, further, the 

 traveller should, in order to prevent disappointment, desire 

 Messrs. Burghall and Co. to instruct their agent at Arcot 

 accordingly. 



A new hotel, however, is in contemplation, to be erected 

 close to the Terminus ; and then the difficulties which arise, 

 from the distant position of the present one, will be obviated. 



The hire of the different transit carriages is at present as 

 follows ; but the traveller will receive a printed Table of 

 charges from Messrs. Burghall and Co., and others, when 

 he engages his transit ; and these give the stages, and par- 

 ticulars as to the charges, and existing bungalows on the line. 



The Railroad fares for the different class carriages, charg- 

 es for luggage, and for horses, if any are taken, will be learnt 

 from the manager at Madras ; but these are all as low as 

 those of the Bengal railway, if not less. 

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