short of impracticable.
The Bridges throughout ou
this road are
perfectly rotten.
DOVVe
of.
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them have large holes in the planks. which compose them, that threaten the most serious accidents, and the Major
General considers that no mounted,
ted person
officer
could venture.
ex
other
over them
by night, without imminent danger
ti
a
The Bead itself moreover
degree,
er is in
many parts precipitous and unprotected
and the Major General considers the whole line from Tytam, and from whence it branches off to Sywan, as totally mifitted for military
communication.
Ibe ventures further to expres his opinion that in order to make :this road permanently practicable a live must be sought below the
#ret
present
such line
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present level, and he conceives that
may be easily found and laid out at ne great expense to the
public.
But whatever the expense, he
begs to suggest that it should be -done with as little delay as possible,
more
expecially as it is his intention to hold Stanley with a large detachment
a
anxious
of Seapoys, and that it is his wish to be able to visit this outpost
frequently in person.
For six months he has been ___
totally unable to do this, by land; from the State of that Road, and he ventures again to impress upon the Governor the absolute necessity of
affording him the means
of easy
communication with the Troope,
whereby alone Discipline
carr
be
maintained