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196 BENARES, PAST AND PRESENT.
utilized for the erection of the present Barna bridge,
connecting the civil with the military lines. It has
seemed to my mind a somewhat inconsiderate policy,
on the part of the local authorities, that, while col-
lecting a revenue from the ferry and the dam, they
have never projected a new bridge, but have left the
entire northern boundary of the city, for the space of
between three and four miles, without any proper and
adequate means of communication with the country
beyond the Barna. Further up the river there is the
Iron Bridge, and also that already alluded to; but
these are too far off to be of any real benefit to the
inhabitants of the city on the one side of the Barna,
and of the numerous villages on the other side, through-
out the whole of the tract to which I am referring,
except by their making a considerable detour; and
this, on account of the great distance to be traversed,
is, I fear, in the case of many of them, impracticable.
utilized for the erection of the present Barna bridge,
connecting the civil with the military lines. It has
seemed to my mind a somewhat inconsiderate policy,
on the part of the local authorities, that, while col-
lecting a revenue from the ferry and the dam, they
have never projected a new bridge, but have left the
entire northern boundary of the city, for the space of
between three and four miles, without any proper and
adequate means of communication with the country
beyond the Barna. Further up the river there is the
Iron Bridge, and also that already alluded to; but
these are too far off to be of any real benefit to the
inhabitants of the city on the one side of the Barna,
and of the numerous villages on the other side, through-
out the whole of the tract to which I am referring,
except by their making a considerable detour; and
this, on account of the great distance to be traversed,
is, I fear, in the case of many of them, impracticable.