710 [=71] (V.2)

710

that year, the masonry works being
sufficiently advanced to admit
of water being passed over them,
the 3 cuts above alluded to, were
prolonged to the inlet, or in the
above diagram from B to C. At
the early part of the season there
was some difficulty experienced
in persuading the flood water
to leave its old channel, and to
follow the direct course which
was opened out for it. This partly
arose from the insufficiency of
waterway at the heads of the
newly excavated cuts at B, and
partly from the natural tendency
that the slopes of the bed gave
the current towards its old direction.
By opening out of the heads
of these cuts, however, and by a
judicious application of bunds
and spurs, the river was ulti-
-mately conducted over the masonry
works, and placed in the new
line upon which it will hereafter
run. It has been before explained
that for the maintenance of the
torrent in its direct course upon
the works, as well as for the other pur-
-poses in connection with deposits
and the improvement of the
low land lying above the inlet,
I proposed the application of
parallel lines of bund or em-
-bankment across the valley
situated at right angles to the
torrent itself, and constructed
on the same design as that
which had been adopted for
similar purposes in the valley
of the Puttri

710

that year, the masonry works being
sufficiently advanced to admit
of water being passed over them,
the 3 cuts above alluded to, were
prolonged to the inlet, or in the
above diagram from B to C. At
the early part of the season there
was some difficulty experienced
in persuading the flood water
to leave its old channel, and to
follow the direct course which
was opened out for it. This partly
arose from the insufficiency of
waterway at the heads of the
newly excavated cuts at B, and
partly from the natural tendency
that the slopes of the bed gave
the current towards its old direction.
By opening out of the heads
of these cuts, however, and by a
judicious application of bunds
and spurs, the river was ulti-
-mately conducted over the masonry
works, and placed in the new
line upon which it will hereafter
run. It has been before explained
that for the maintenance of the
torrent in its direct course upon
the works, as well as for the other pur-
-poses in connection with deposits
and the improvement of the
low land lying above the inlet,
I proposed the application of
parallel lines of bund or em-
-bankment across the valley
situated at right angles to the
torrent itself, and constructed
on the same design as that
which had been adopted for
similar purposes in the valley
of the Puttri