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PESHAWUR.
BOOK 11^
The discovery of a coal-mine at the head of the
Indus may prove of the utmost importance in these
times, since the navigation of that river is open to
Attok ; and the mineral is found about forty miles
distant from that place, with a level road inter-
vening, close to a large city, where labour is cheap.
It is a singular circumstance, that deposits of coal
should have been discovered, both at the mouth
and head of the Indus (in Cutch and Cohat), within
these few years, and since steam has been used in
India. It is seldom that discoveries are so oppor-
tune, and I trust that they augur favourably for the
opening of a new route to commerce by the Indus.
PESHAWUR.
BOOK 11^
The discovery of a coal-mine at the head of the
Indus may prove of the utmost importance in these
times, since the navigation of that river is open to
Attok ; and the mineral is found about forty miles
distant from that place, with a level road inter-
vening, close to a large city, where labour is cheap.
It is a singular circumstance, that deposits of coal
should have been discovered, both at the mouth
and head of the Indus (in Cutch and Cohat), within
these few years, and since steam has been used in
India. It is seldom that discoveries are so oppor-
tune, and I trust that they augur favourably for the
opening of a new route to commerce by the Indus.