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works will enable the reader to
comprehend the detail which
I am now about to enter upon
and to appreciate the difficulties
that were overcome, and the final
success that attended the assist-
-and engineer in bringing the
[works, struck through] whole to a completion.

The Rutmoo works were
commenced in the early part of
1850, under the management
of Mr. ^Thomas Login, who on the comple-
-tion of the 1st class choki made
Dhunuari (the name of the
estate in which the works are
situated) his head quarters
station. The position of the
brick fields, the connecting line
of railroad, and all economical
arrangements regarding the
carrying on of the works, were
left to Mr. Login's management,
their general detail is figured
in the map. The [propinquity, struck through] proximity
of the brick fields not only to
the works themselves, but to the
excavated channel of the new
escape from the dam has been
of the greatest possible advantage.
The brick soil, algthough not found
in great quantities in the channel
excavation, was procurable in
the immediate neighborhood
where it was in sufficient a-
bundance to enable us to
maintain a set of Puzawas
or native brick kilns [at work, struck through]
as well as a series of 22 English
kilns. The bricks for the latter
were made by hand on masonry
platforms, and the native kilns
were supplied entirely by one
of

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