The Cotton And Commerce Of India Considered In Relation To The Interests Of Great Britain

Author : John Chapman
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230179759
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book The Cotton and Commerce of India, Considered in Relation to the Interests of Great Britain written by John Chapman and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ...traffic shall exist to support a more thickly-set and convenient congeries of lines. The hearty prosecution of the plans proposed for the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company, would probably soon have brought about a much improved state of things. Nor was anything proposed which would interfere with giving to Poonah the best railway accommodation which the face of the country will permit. If the line, without passing Poonah, had been laid so near to that city as to have precluded the making hereafter of another and more convenient one, there might have been some reason for apprehension and complaint. But since the line, as proposed, crosses the ghauts at 40, perhaps 60, miles from the place where a line from the coast to Poonah must cross them, and since the whole system, as at present proposed, confessedly leaves Poonah to be provided hereafter with the full accommodation which the railway system must eventually afford it, there need be little fear of that place suffering any other inconvenience, or even delay, than that which necessarily arises from the circumstances under which the system is first introduced into Western India. The way is left open and untouched for improvements which must embrace Poonah; meanwhile that city is not only served by railway in the best manner the circumstances of the first attempt permit, but it has the advantage on the direct line to the coast of the best common road in Western India--one, indeed, of the very kind which Col. Grant says is good enough for the vastly greater traffic of Candeish, Malwa, and Berar. However singular, then, it may seem to omit the second city of the Presidency from the first railway proposed, I could not MILITARY CONVENIENCE. ill but conclude that the interests of the...