Pogson, Wredenhall Robert: Captain Pogson's Narrative during a tour to Chateegaon (Serampore, 1831)

TO CHATEEGAON.

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any quantity of stone, and it might easily be
conveyed to, and deposited on the line of the
intended shoal, without any material expense—
by its being enacted, that every boat passing
down should convey a certain number of stones,
previously collected on the bank of the river,
and deposit them on the line of embankment as
they pass it, under the superintendence of an
Oilicer stationed there tor the purpose.
The deposit of stones would, in the first year,
cause an accumulation of a vast quantity of
sand, and the work might subsequently be per-
severed in, to the necessary extent.
It may be said, that so large a body of water*
turned into tire Bhageerutee, would injure the
towns and cities on its banks ;—but it does not
appear to me that there would be any j ust cause
for such an apprehension ; because, in the dry
weather, the water of the Bhageerutee would be
far below its level in the rainy season, and at
thaf period, the partial dam in the Ganges
would be so perfectly overflowed, and so many
feet immersed, as to make no injurious or per-
ceptible obstruction to the natural course of
the river; while it would have the effect of
throwing a greater body of water into the Bha-
geerutee at all seasons; consequently, of deep-
ening the channel, and clearing all impedi-
ments to the navigation. It may be alleged