789 [=150] (V.2)

789

Kalli Nuddi is 29.21 feet on a
length of 20000 feet or 3 miles 6 fur-
-longs and 290 feet, the total fall per
mile being ^[7.71 feet?]. To have completed
this line with properly regulated
slopes, and with the necessary
works for disposing of the super-
-fluous fall, would have been
a work [an undertaking] of considerable time and [demanding]
labor, and it would have occupied
the attention of the supervising
establishment, in a way that
would have led to interruption
to the [progress, struck through] works of the main canal
line upon which more immediate
progress was indispensable. I
therefore determined after cleaning
out the channel so as to admit
of a free passage for the escape of
water, to postpone the exection
of the permanent works for the
connection of the slopes, until the
current by acting on the bed,
had by its natural retrogressive
excavations, given us fixed points
for establishing the masonry des-
-cents. The saving in expense by
thus permitting nature to perform
the duties which we must other-
-wise have done by labor, is very
great; and from the [nature, struck through] character of
the work, and [from, struck through] our ability
to regulate the water passing
along the channel, or even stop
it altogether, there could be no
fear of accidents or disarrange-
-ment; the plan under such
circumstances was quite a
legitimate one, and I have prac-
-tised it universally in all the
escape channels connected wioth
the Ganges Canal Works.

Instead, therefore, of carrying
the