ON RIVER STEAMERS, 273 
channels of the Deltas of the Ganges and Burhampootra. Figure 3rd, the 
Tumlook or Salt boat, of 800 maunds, or 27 tons burden, plying on the 
Delta of the Ganges below Calcutta. 
24. The publication contains 104 pages, in six chapters, on private specu- 
lation, the government sea and river steamers, detailed accounts of experi- 
ments and opinions of the late General W. N. Forbes and other officers, with 
plans of the following steamers :— 
25. The King of Oude’s steamer, built at Lucknow, the engines brought 
out by Mr. Henry Jessop, in 1819. The ‘ Diana,’ built at Calcutta in 1823, 
and employed in the Burmese war in 1824. The ‘ Enterprise,’ the first vessel 
that steamed out to India in 1825. The ‘ Irrawaddy’ and ‘ Ganges,’ govern- 
ment sea steamers, built by Mr. Seppings, at Calcutta, in 1827. ‘There is also 
a plan of the Forbes steam-tug, launched in January 1829, at Calcutta, of the 
construction of which I had the superintendence, and in March 1830 con- 
ducted her to China, towing a vessel of 380 tons, against the monsoon, as 
stated in the 18th page. ‘ 
26. For river navigation in the Assam valley, the government launched 
the ‘Burhampootra’ and ‘ Hooghly’ early in 1827; the former 102 feet long 
by 18 broad, built by Mr. Kyd, with the round bilge design by Maudsley and 
Co.; the ‘ Hooghly’ being built by Mr. I. M. Seppings, with flat floor, square 
bilge, and upright sides. The third and fourth chapters give details of various 
trials of these two, and opinions that the ‘ Hooghly ’ steered so badly, that the 
Marine Board considered a “rudder in the bow seemed the best remedy.” 
27. I have entered into this detail as the papers now before me will afford 
much valuable information as to the actual performances of the vessels first 
established by government on the Indian rivers; the peculiar character of 
that navigation and the difficulties to be contended with are nowhere to be 
found so well illustrated as in this record of practical trials, and the opinions 
of various sea officers, engineers, professional builders, and naval architects. 
28. The fourth chapter contains information peculiarly applicable to the 
present pressing demand for water transport by the Great Trunk Railways, 
now in course of construction up the valleys of the Ganges and Indus, 
by the East Indian and Scinde Railway Companies. The recent crisis of a 
mutinous army in the valley of the Ganges (now happily past), has left the 
“A Tumlcok, or Flat Type. 
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Fig. 3 is a‘ Tumlook,’ or ‘Salt Boat,’ of 800 maunds, or 27 tons burden, plying on the 
Delta of the Ganges below Calcutta. These have their rudders hung through a recess in the 
stern, and may, in common with those already described, be tilted up out of the water by 
means of depressing the upper end of the pole to which they are hung. 
