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lighter permanent way were used.

10.

The Engineer's Report now forward-

-ed covers a tracing of the map on a scale of 2 inches to a

mile on which the East low level route is shown as Railway

No. 1, the West route as Railway No. 2 and the branch from

Un Long to the East route as Railway No. 3. It also covers

a tracing of the survey for No. 1 Railway on a scale of

8 inches to 1 mile and longitudinal sections of that line

and of Nos. 2 and 3 Railways. Appended to the Report are

details with regard to the estimated cost of permanent way,

stations, and tunnels for all three lines and a summary of

the estimated total cost of each railway with an analysis

of the cost per mile.

11.

In the final paragraph of my

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Despatch of the 11th. January, I stated my opinion that

unless the Engineer's detailed estimates showed that by

reason of the cost of the tunnel a line by the East route

would be considerably more expensive than the longer one

by the West route the former route should be adopted. The

East route proves to be the less expensive of the two and

as I understand from paragraph 3 of the Crown Agents'

letter of the 12th. April last to Sir John Wolfe Barry and

Partners

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