6

the execution of works in all respects of the same character and description as those executed thereon, thus becomes :-

Schedule No. 1 Schedule No. 2

Rs. 5,514,152 78 1,563,031 61

Rs. 7,077,184 39

Details of Schedule No. 1, classified as on the Nánu-oya Railway, are us follows:-

A.-Earthwork

B.-Tunnels

C.-Bridges

D.-Culverts

E-Retaining walls

F.-Permanent way -

BA.

cts.

-

1,924,184 30

985,800 0

246,141 50

581,448 85

76.49

366

100.90

865

Average daily fall and Average daily fall counting only those days on

76-49

which rain was registered, viz, and Greatest fall registered in anv 34 hours

Inchos.

Inoben

-21

*27

100.90

900

+49

6-80 Dec. 12-13, 1884. Sept. 9-10, 1874.

•50

-

9.11

At Hakgala, about four miles to the north of a point on the Haputalé Railway, distant 10 miles from Nánu-oya, the rainfall is thus tabulated by the Hon. the Surveyor-General :-

1884.

No. of days

on which

Means of 14 your.

rain fell.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

TILLC.O. 882

سئسيليس

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-

G.-Switches and crossings

H.-Fencing

1.-Level crossings

J.-Metalling roads

K.-Stations

L.-Workshops

M.--Reserve quantities

N.-Maintenance

Total of Schedule No. 1

362,554 14

688,073 80

396,947 67

Inches.

10,640

0

20,000 0

5,750 0

16,848

0

January - February March April

-

4.67

17

Inches. 4.67

Dayı.

17

1.85

7

1.85

7

8.90

9

8-90

9

8.02

12

8.02

12

May

4.48

12

4-48

18

June

2.23

11

2-28

11

July

8.09

17

7.07

19-

August

4.33

22

6.14

23

September

8.32

20

5.79

17

October

14.07

25

10.43

24

November

9.81

18

9.52

24

December

15.47

25

11.65

21

76.24

195

70.75

193

61,514 52

138,050

5,437,952 78

76,200 0

Rs. 5,514,152 78

It is with the total of this estimate that the estimate which I have now the honour to submit should be compared, in order that the actual saving made by certain modifications of the work, which will be suggested in the following portion of this report, may be ascertained.

I wish it to be distinctly understood that these modifications are submitted entirely Bubject to the sanction and approval of the Consulting Engineer, by whom the original designs and estimates were approved, and before whom therefore it is, I think, most essential that any proposed alterations in them should be laid; and in order that he may be in a position to form an opinion upon them, it is necessary, I think, to point out in the first place that the distribution and amount of annual rainfall in the district between Nanu-oya and Haputalé, which must always form a most important element in determining the design of railway works, is widely different from that experienced ia the districts of Ambagamuwa and Dimbula traversed by the Nánu-oya Railway.

10. It is to be regretted that the country traversed by the Haputalé Extension being for the most part uninhabited, no observations of the rainfall have been taken at stations actually on or very close to the railway trace; the stations nearest to it being Nuwara Eliya, Hakgala, and Miriyabedda.

At Nuwara Eliya, 4 miles distant from the commencement of the line at Nanu-oya, the rainfall is thus tabulated by the Hon. the Surveyor-General :—

Inches.

Inches.

75.94 346

Average daily fall and Average daily fali counting only those days on

76.34 70-75 which rain was.registered, viz., and

70.75 366

.21

· 19

193

.38

8.62

⚫86

4.85

Dec. 12-13, 1884. July 12-18, 1888.

Greatest fall registered in any 24 hours

And at Miriyabedda estate, distant in a direct line some four miles to the east of the railway terminus at Haputalé Pass, the observations taken by the Hon. the Surveyor- General give the following results :——

January

February

1883.

No. of days on which

Means for 10 years.

rain fell.

1884.

No. of days on which

Means of 14) years.

rain fall.

Inches.

Inches.

January

February

1.49

5.54

Daya. 12

0.24

2.58

6

March

3.19

8.12

8

April

8.17

9

5.84

13

May

5.01

14

8.26

16

Inches.

9.80

10

Inches. 4.49

Days. 10

8.20

10

4.57

8

March

8.11

12

8.81

19

April

13.85

15

11.03

17

May

9.82

18

7-28

18

June

0.98

9

1-78

7

July

Not recorded

2-56

8

August

6.89

14

4-82

10

}

September

8.88

18

5-85

10

October

12.50

18

19-78

19

November

15.86

27

17.41

23

December

10:57

16

10.91

18

92*45

167

91-09

158

June

4.88

17

14.04

24

July

7.08

29

14.07

23

August

10.64

26

9.44

28

Inches.

Inches

September

6.17

20

8.98

20

October

12.64

22

10.56

22

Average daily fall and

99.45 384

$1.00

+97

.25

November

9.61

16

9.49

19

December

12.80

16

8.33

15

76.42

181

100.20

200

Average daily fall counting only those days on

$1.00 which rain was registered, vis., and Grosions fall registered in any 24 hours

A 4

92.45 157

*58

6.00 6-9 May, 1888.

'67

6.99 Sept. 23-24, 1877.

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