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2 The roadway is broad, the general style of the works is excellent, and the
3 earth-work good, though as yet no part of it is metalled. The whole
4 design is upon a grand scale. Up to last Report, Rupees 35,00,000
5 had been expended, and since that time Rupees 29,50,000, making
6 a total of Rupees 64,50,000, or 644 lakhs or £646,000, falling
7 ata rate of Rupees 23,450 or £2,350 per mile. Much labor has
8 lately been bestowed on the perfecting and maturing of the projects
9 for .the remaining great works. The plans will, it is hoped, be
10 shortly fit for submission to the Supreme Government. It has been
11 found that the ultimate expenditure will considerably exceed even
12 Difficulties and expense the high estimate given in the last Report. In
13 __ of the line. para. 408 of the Second Punjab Report, the
14 total sania -both past and prospective, was set down at 51}
15 _ lakhs of Rupees or £515,000; but the finally revised estimates,
16 inelusive of floating bridges and metalling and all items, will not fall
17 - short of, and may perhaps exceed, one crore of Rupees or one
18 million pounds sterling. In that case the cost per mile will be about
19 £4,000 or £4,500.
20 82. In addition to the Grand Trunk line, progress has been made
21 Peshawar and Huzera With other roads; In Huzara 110 miles of excel-
22 lent hill road have been made and partially bridged,
23 ‘imparting new development to the rural commerce of that moun-
24 tainous district. In the Peshawar valley, 77 miles of road and 189
25 bridges and drains have been constructed, connecting the important
26 -station of Peshawur with its frontier out-posts. In the wild Kohat
27 district, progress has been made with three valuable military roads.
28 Numerous roads have been roughly made in the Derajat, Trans-Indus,
29 One difficult hill road near Pind. Dadun Khan in the Sindh Sagur Doab
30 Roads in otherparts of has been made. A good hill road from Rawul
31 the Punjab. Pindee to the Sanatarium of Murree has been half
32 constructed, and a temporary road has been opened to the new Sanata-
33 rium of Dalhousie. In October 1854, the sanction of the Hon’ble Court
34 of Directors was received to several lines of much commercial consequence
35 in the Central districts. Some of these have been commenced upon.
36 The important line from Lahore to Mooltan has been slightly improved ;
37 but circumstances are unfavorable to the efficient construction of this
38 road, and we may hope that some day it will be replaced by a Railway.