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plans and estimates connected with this subject are now before the 

 Honorable Court of Directors, and I leave it to the Committee to use 

 their influence, in obtaining from that source, the information I have 

 communicated, and which is I believe of sufficient interest to merit 

 their attention. 



(Signed) ALFRED S. WALNE. 



Her Majesty s Vice- Consulate, Cairo, 5th July, 1839. 



Sir, — I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 

 29th April, containing copy of a paper on Camel carriages, communi- 

 cated by Mr. T. J. Taylor to the Committee of the New Bengal Steam 

 Fund. 



In my letter to Capt. Barber, of which the above is a copy, I have 

 entered somewhat at length into the question of Dromedary carriages, 

 and before the departure of the next English Steamer, I shall, in com- 

 pliance with your request, send him a few observations on Mr. Taylor's 

 excellent paper, the perusal of which has interested me much, and 

 afforded me some hints that may prove extremely useful. 



I am sorry that I cannot forward you a copy of my proposals for the 

 carriage of coals, in high wheeled carts, drawn by Camels ; but having 

 caused them to be laid before the Court of Directors, I thought it best 

 to limit myself to advising Capt. Barber as to the source from which he 

 could obtain the information I had furnished. 



I was enabled to obtain from Capt. Graham, who accompanied the 

 elephants to Cairo, a general idea of Major Pew's Camel Artillery, 

 but if the Committee would do me the favor to furnish me with a sketch 

 of the harness in detail, I should feel particularly obliged. 



(Signed J ALFRED S. WALNE. 

 C. B. Greenlaw, Esq. 

 Sec. N. B. S. Fund. 



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