Second Report of the Directors of the Scinde Railway Company, 1856 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Second Report of the Directors of the Scinde Railway Company, 1856Sm H. Maddock, upon this last point, observed that years ago, when he was governor of an Indian province, iron was dug, smelted, and converted into bars in that province, and a suspension bridge in the sangur-nerbudda district still existed which was constructed out of those bars, across a river 200 feet broad. Financial considerations, under the Governor-generalship of Lord William Bentinck, interposed to prevent the prosecution of the iron-works, and the con struction of similar bridges over other rivers, but the fact he had stated settled the question of the existence of iron in India suitable for rails and other engineering purposes [hear, hear].About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.