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to the Report.
The prices are, as I fully expected to learn, largely in excess of English costs, but, with the exception of the work at the Tunnel, I do not find any great
apparent extravagance- and even the Funnel costs
under all the local conditions, be as low as they
as stated on page 42 not less
may,
can be brought, if
than 25 per cent of the total cost has been due
to excessive sickness. The position of the works, the
difficulties of carriage, together with the loss of
men's time and the higher rate of wages necessitated by the great prevalence of fever, are considerable
factors in the calculation and must be allowed
comparison with the cost of similar
for in
any
work done in the United Kingdom.
The Surveyor General complains of some of
the
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