212 GANJAM. 



as to form a canal, and a beginning 

 has actually been made ; but before an 

 uninterrupted inland water-way can be 

 perfected along the entire coast, means 

 must be found to carry the canal across 

 the river-beds, which during many 

 months interpose at intervals a stretch 

 of dry sand. A canal now unites the 

 Chilka Lake with the mouth of the 

 Ganjam River. It was dug as a famine- 

 relief work during the last year of my 

 administration in Ganjam, in 1867, and 

 if means could be found to contrive 

 a water-way across the river during 

 the dry season it could easily be con- 

 tinued through an intermediate back- 

 water to Gopulpore, a port of call for 

 the steamers of the British India Steam 

 Navigation Company. 



