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necessary Survey
was made, and as
the nature of the country is such.
eve
- found it necessary to define the line as we proceeded, as it we
as it was impossible
in many
in
instances to make our
way through the brushwood and difficult in all to
our
to carry instruments or worth on the steep
sidelong ground.
on the completion of the survey
Can was
the plan
submitted for
completed and
the consideration
of His liscellency The Governor. It
comprised
one main line to Stanley
with two branches, one
it
to the cottage
Heonghong, and the other to
Tsytam Village.
of
The work at the commencement
the line offering some very ~
considerable difficulties and consequent
expense of construction, I proposed
three modes
which is
of passing the summit :- nearly 600 feet above -
Mean water:
and most expensive
The first and most
+expensive makes the line available for carriages, but the other two are exceedingly steep parts being / in!! and therefore are nearly simpracticable
wheel carriages; after passing for "the summit the line prevents some difficulties of construction but the gradients are most favourable. This work recupied the continued attention of Captain bowper unyself for a period of two months suring the usual working hours
out
and
& of office, and the whole scheme