ROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC WORKS IN INDIA. 
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Raising and repairing a road from Puttah 
Ghaut, which joins the military road near 
Hurripaul. 
1815 : 
Laying down mooring chains, and construc- 
tion of a depdt for marine stores at Saugor. 
Completion of the town hall. 
Erection of a mausoleum at Ghazeepore, 
to the memory of Marquis Cornwallis. 
Erection of lighthouses at Saugor Island, 
Point Palmyras, and certain floating lights 
there ; likewise of one at the island of Moya- 
poor. (In 1821 the construction of the light- 
house at Saugor was abandoned, and one on 
Edmonstone’s Island authorized in its stead ; 
which was also afterwards abandoned, and a 
second lighthouse on Moyapoor constructed.) 
Building a bridge over the nullah at Mee- 
rut. 
Cutting a road twelve feet wide for beasts 
of burthen from Bumouree to Almorah, and 
building bridges. 
1816 : 
The clearing of the island of Saugor, au- 
thorised. 
Rebuilding the houses of the botanical 
garden. 
Establishment of a native hospital at Patna 
Erection of a lighthouse at Kedgeree. 
Repairs and alterations to the government 
houses at Calcutta, and in the park at Bar- 
rackpore, and erecting guard-rooms and sta- 
bling for the body guard : completed in 1827. 
1817 : 
Repair of an ancient aqueduct in the Deyra 
Dhoon. 
Restoration of the Delhi canal : completed. 
Restoration of a canal in Goruckpore. 
Construction of a new road at Moochu- 
collah. 
Erection of telegraphs between Calcutta 
and Nagpore- 
Construction of a road from Tondah to 
Bumouree. 
Completion of the new road from Patna to 
Gyah. 
The road from Puttah Ghaut to the mili- 
tary road near Hurripaul widened. 
1818 : 
Eight bridges built for the entrances on 
the land side of the city of Delhi. 
The road repaired between Mahratta bridge, 
Calcutta, and a bridge connecting the main 
road with the gate of the hospital at Dum 
Dum. 
Construction of a well in the centre of the 
proposed Gunge at Bumouree and Tondah 
(this work was in 1820 abandoned, in conse- 
quence of the unhealthiness of the situation) ; 
road leading from Calcutta to Dum Dum 
repaired. 
Construction of a road from Puttah Ghaut 
to Hurripaul. 
The I’oad between Patua and Shehargotty 
raised, and drains and watercourses added 
for the purpose of promoting cultivation. 
1819 : 
Construction of a chapel at Benares. 
Extension as far as Ruderpore of the road 
constructed from Bumouree to Tondah in 
Kumaoon, for the purpose of opening a com- 
munication between the Plains and Almorah. 
Repairing the bridge over the Ramgunga, 
and constructing a new bridge over the Soor- 
joo rivers in Kumaoon. 
1820: 
Erection of an exchange by the merchants 
of Calcutta on a site of ground granted by 
government. 
Formation of a botanical garden at Saha- 
runpore- 
Construction of part of a road from the 
Barrackpore cantonments to a spot opposite 
the village of Buddee Pautee, where lime- 
kilns have been constructed- 
Construction of sangha bridges over the 
Bulleah and .Soowal rivers in Kumaoon. 
Sinking two pucka wells at Deyrah in the 
Dhoon. 
1821 : 
Measures for building a Scotch church (St. 
Andrew’s), and a grant of government in aid 
of its erection, which was completed in 1824. 
Erection of two chapels at Benares and 
Dacca ; also. 
Completion of a new chapel at Futtyghur. 
Construction of a church at Foit William, 
and of a new chapel at Calcutta. 
Measures adopted for improving the routes 
of communication between the principal posi- 
tions of the army, by opening and repairing 
roads at and between t!ie following stations, 
so as to make them available during the dry 
season for any description of transport car- 
riage ; viz. 
From Agra to Mliow via Lakheree and 
Mokundiah. 
From Mhow to Delhi, by Neemutch and 
Nusseerabad. 
From Asseerghur to , Hussingabad, thence 
to Mhow via Mundlasir, and to Nagpore 
via Berhampore and Ellichpoor- 
From Cawnpore to Saugor through Bundle- 
cund, and thence to Nagpore by two routes, 
viz. by Jubblepore, and by Hussingabad. 
From Calcutta to Nagpore, through the 
Singboom country. 
1822: 
Excavation of a canal to unite the Hoogh- 
ly with the Ganges, through the Salt-water 
Lake- ( I'his work was proposed in this 
year, and the line surveyed, but the opera- 
tions were only commenced in 1829 ) 
Additional moorings laid down at Kedgeree. 
■Measures for the survey and improve- 
ment of the port of Cuttack 
Arrangement respecting the moorings laid 
down off the esplanade for government ves- 
sels, sanctioned. 
Formation of a teak and sissoo plantations 
at Bauleah, Sylhet, and the Jungle Mehals. 
Construction of a line of telegraphs from 
Fort William to Chunar. 
Construction of a road from Chilkea to 
Howel Baugh in Kumaoon for mules and ta- 
toos for commercial purposes, and more parti- 
cularly for facilitating the commerce between 
Tartary and the Plains. 
