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pool was encountered. The distance accomplished this day was about 

 8 J miles. 



On the 4th August the fleet made 14 miles, the river the whole way- 

 more or less obstructed with rocks, rapids and whirlpools ; especially 

 bad near Surpan, where it came to. 



On the 5th, the fleet passed the dangerous shoals and rapids of 

 Mookree, terminating in a whirlpool, and reached Emria, 10^ miles. 

 The native writer's boat, which brought up the rear, struck on a rock 

 and stranded. The people swam to the shore. 



Having got the boat off on the 6th, the fleet proceeded on without 

 further difficulty, and reached Baroach on the 9th, and deposited 302 

 maunds of coal in the Government Customs Godowns at that place. 

 Captain Fenwick left Baroach on the 3rd October, having freighted a 

 Botellah for Bombay with the coal. Off Taraparee Chunchun, the 

 storm, which set in on the evening of the 7th, drove the Patemars far out 

 to sea, and compelled them to put back some distance above Surat ; this 

 delayed the arrival at Bombay until the morning of the 15th, when 

 eleven tons and ten cwt. of coal were delivered at the Dockyard,, and 

 the experimental voyage terminated. 



The casualties en route were 3 boats, 98 maunds of coal, and the bag- 

 gage of the boatmen. No lives were lost, and no one suffered any per- 

 sonal injury from accidents. The crews were generally healthy, supplies 

 plentiful, and the Bheel tribes most attentive and useful whenever their 

 services were required. 



Captain Fenwick having deposited the coal set out from Baroach on 

 the 15th September for Chikuldah by water, with the six small boats he 

 had taken down, taking only the baggage of the boatmen and supplies 

 for the party ; the fleet reached Chikulda on the evening of the 7th 

 September, after great exposure, but without loss, or meeting with any 

 serious accident. Laden boats could not by any possibility have come 

 ap in the then state of the river, generally about half full and latterly 

 very high. The Bareekheree shallows and the Huranphal rocks were 

 completely under water. 



The result of the experiment may be summed up as follows : that 

 from Dhairee to Chikuldah it would be quite practicable, with a por- 

 terage at Sahesurdarrah, to take down coal after an average rainy season 

 throughout the year, in such boats as are at present employed in the 



