Of Ten Years´ Missionary Labour in India
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Excerpt from Of Ten Years´ Missionary Labour in India: Between 1852 and 1861, Prepared From Local Reports and Original Letters More than 4600 males of trunk-lines have been planned at a cost of 55,000,000l. sterling, of which the great line from Bombay to Calcutta, across the hitherto closed tracks of Central India will bring the capital of the empire at least five days nearer to England than it has ever been. By these great lines, when fully completed, and fed by branch railways, tramways, and roads, a compactness and unity will be given to the Empire, and to its numerous wide-spread provinces, of the most surprising kind. The first section of line was opened at Bombay in 1853; forty miles of the East Indian Railway near Calcutta speedily followed. But the first line completed from end to end was the the South-Western of Madras. By May 1862, 1630 miles were opened, to which 1300 miles have just been added in the cold season at the end of the year. The remaining 1800 are in process of construction, and will (it is believed) be completed within two years. It is not improbable that at the close of the present year the line from Calcutta to Delhi, the trunk line of the Gangetic Valley, will be traversed from end to end, except at the river Jumna, where a steam ferry will, for the present, occupy the place of the unfinished bridge; while, at the same time, the Bombay line will be completed to the city of Nagpore. The natives are enthusiastic in favour of railway travelling especially in the Presidency of Bengal. They readily adopt it wherever it is available; and their caste, about which much was feared, has accommodated itself to the demands of the railway system with scarcely one grumble of opposition. The telegraph immediately preceded the rail, and has been laid along ail the great lines of traffic. Notwithstanding man difficulties, 3000 miles of wire were erected above ground in the course of two years, at a cost of 200,000l. The lines had across, by cables, seventy large rivers, to traverse tracts of rock and mountain, sand and loam; to pass through miles of dens jungle, where wild animals and deadly fevers had their haunt. But the work was prosecuted with energy and success, and the lines now embrace all the great towns of the empire, and stretch over all its provinces, from Galle to Peshawur, from Peshawm to Rangoon. Within the same period the postage system has been adaptec to the wants of the country, and the general improvements of the times. The old system of heavy charges and varying rates paid in bulky Indian cash, gave place, in 1853, to light charges uniform rates and postage-stamps. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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