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The Agent to the Oude and Rohilcund Railway Company pointed out 
that “ in 1870 and 1871 the floods were so excessive and so entirely unfore- 
seen, that the estimates submitted and the project prepared had to be 
reconsidered and altogether superseded ; the bank had to be raised, and the 
designs of bridges to be revised, increasing largely the waterway. 
These floods fortunately occurred before the works were much advanced. 
This, however, has not been the case in other places. Disasters have 
accordingly occurred, and much damage has been inflicted on several railway 
bridges. Now that more is known, more will be done to avert mischief ; 
but, after taking every precaution, there will always be considerable difficulty 
where shifting streams have to be encountered, and where foundations have 
to be laid in the soil subject to a scour of 50 or 60 feet in depth. 
