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PROPOSAL TO UNITE THE SUTLEGE WITH THE JUMNA.’ 
vessels, and four iron lighters, to draw 
when loaded, four feet w'ater ; one tug boat 
would tow two lighters six miles an hour 
against the current of the Indus, or 600 
tons of goods to Attock or Loodianna, in 
twenty-one days, if steaming twelve hours 
per day, and fourteen days of steaming eigh- 
teen hours, and ten and a half days if she 
steamed day and night each vessel at the 
consumption of 120 tons of coals per 
trip. Supposing she made eight trips per 
annum, she would convey up 4800 tons, 
with an expenditure of 1000 tons of coals. 
Two tugs would, therefore, convey annually 
9600 tons into the centre of Asia, with 
an expenditure of 2000 tons of coals. 
A mean rate of freight may be taken at 
£3 per ton, which would give an annual 
receipt of <£28,800 ; exclusive of any 
downward freight or passage money up 
and down. It is evident all Europeans 
and the respectable natives of the upper 
provinces will prefer this route to the 
tedious and expensive water conveyance by 
the Ganges or land carriage.” 
In case of emergency these vessels would 
be available to the Indian Government for 
transporting 2000 troops in one trip from 
the entrance of the river to Loodianna. 
In addition to the foregoing, w^e find, in 
that ably conducted Journal the Mofussal 
Akbar, a paper characteristic of its la- 
mented but talented and enterprizing 
author Mr. Henderson, shewing the 
feasibility of cutting a canal to con- 
nect the rivers Sutlege and Jumna for pur- 
poses of navigation. He had previously as- 
sumed that the best line in all probability 
would be a direct cut across from the Sut- 
lege at Ferosepoor, the point where the 
Beegas joins it, to Koonjpoora on the Jum- 
na ; but as he afterwards found that the 
Sutlege above Ferosepore has a north-east- 
erly direction and might probably alter its 
course at Tehara, thereby obliterating a 
portion of the canal, he proposed to exa- 
mine the line between the last mentioned 
station Tehara, and the nearest point on the 
Jumna, the distance between the two rivers 
being there about one hundred and thirty 
miles. 
“ The country between Tehara and Jumna 
appears to the eye to be perfectly flat. In- 
sulated sand hills indeed are here and there 
situated over the country, being generally 
selected as the sites of villages, but do not 
interfere with the general level. The Sut- 
lege is one furlong broad where he examin- 
ed it at Tehara, its average depth may be 
reckoned at five feet, and where the banks 
are under three feet high, the utmost depth 
may be estimated at seven or eight feet. 
Boats drawing three feet of water may come 
up to Ferosepore, but after passing that sta- 
tion, they would probably require to draw 
even less than two feet. The Jumna is na- 
vigable during the whole year for boats of 
500 maunds as far as Borassee Ghat, still its 
waters have been diminished so much by 
canals intended for irrigation, that it would 
not appear to him advisable to take the 
waterfor the proposed canal from that river.’’ 
Mr. Henderson adds “ that the Sutlege 
seemed to flow about 19 feet above the line 
of springs ; that the different nuddees were 
from 12 to 20 feet above it, the lower ones 
containing the greatest quantity of water, 
and that the Jumna, which is about 14 feet 
under the Delhi Canal, is 15 feet above 
the line of springs.” 
“ It may be observed by examining the map 
of the country situated between the Jumna 
and Sutlege, that the rivers arising from 
the intermediate hills, have a tendency to 
courses which may be represented by radii 
of a circle, having its centre in the point 
where the courses of the two rivers, after 
issuing from the mountains, would intersect 
each other.” With reference to the expense 
required for the construction, Mr. Hender- 
son remarks “ that the cost of the trunk road 
in the upper provinces may be estimated at 
300 rupees per mile, allowing 50 cubic feet 
of earth raised, as the average work per day 
of the convict or labourer. Now supposing 
the canal to be 27 to 30 feet wide, the 
above sum would be required to bd many 
times multiplied in order to construct the 
proposed canal. 300 rupees multiplied by 
20 ; that is 6000 rupees per mile, or 8 lacs 
of rupees for one hundred and seventy 
