Appendix J. to Second Report of Committee upon the Fever Hospital and Municipal Improvements : containing correspondence respecting the draining of the Salt Water Lake and the continuing of the canal navigation through the Salt Water Lake to Hoseinabad and Koolna, as proposed by the late Major Schalch, and to a canal to Channel Creek, etc.

  • Bengal (India). Committee upon the Fever Hospital and Municipal Improvements.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Appendix J. to Second Report of Committee upon the Fever Hospital and Municipal Improvements : containing correspondence respecting the draining of the Salt Water Lake and the continuing of the canal navigation through the Salt Water Lake to Hoseinabad and Koolna, as proposed by the late Major Schalch, and to a canal to Channel Creek, etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. I. Queries put hy the Committee upon the Fever Hospital and Municipal Improvements to Capt. A. H. E. Boileau, Engineers^ Superintendent of Canals, <^c., and his Answers thereto. \2th January, 1841. Q. 1. Your attention is requested to the Minute of the Governor General of India^ Lord William Bentinck, of date the 2d February, 1830. In Para. 4 of that Minute mention is made of a New Circular Canal then executing. It is understood that this Canal is now executed and in use—its two extremities being as therein described; and the Communication with the Sea, through the Entally Canal and by a Navigable Channel passing through the Salt Water Lake, being such also. Be so good as to say whether the circumstances stated in this Para, are, in your opinion, correctly stated, and if in any, what particulars they are incorrectly stated. A. This Canal has been executed nearly in the manner described ; the Entalee Canal is however a mere Cul de Sac, and forms no part of the general line of Naviga- tion between the Salt Water Lake and the Hooghly, which comprises only the Baliaghata and New Circular Canal. The Baliaghata Canal, which is about 70 feet wide, commences at the West edge of the Salt Water Lake, and runs 9000 feet, or If mile. Westward to its junction with the Circular and Entalee Canals. The latter Canal is 66 feet wide at the waterline, running 5000 feet, or nearly a mile from the West end of the Balia, ghata Canal to within a few yards of the Circular Road, where it terminates. The Circular Canal commences at the junction of the Baliaghata and Entalee Canals, running first Northward and then Westward until it falls into the River Hooghly immediately South of Cheetpoor. Its length is 19,000 feet, or rather less than 3| miles, and its width is 72 feet, having a single Lock with a double pair of Gates immediately under the Cheetpoor Bridge. Q. 2. You will observe upon the Plan inserted opposite page 47, the line of Canal from the Baliaghatta Canal to G, and thence to B, which it is understood Lord William Bentinck proposed for the continuance of the New Circular Canal round the Lake, as mention- ed in Para. 5 of the above Minute. Your attention is requested to His Lordship’s observations in Para. 9 of the said Minute,—to those of Col. Galloway in Para. 6 of his Minute No. 6 (C.) of App. G. page 46,—to the proposal of Major Schalch relative to the Channel through the Salt Water Lake at page vii. of his Memoir, A. No. I. of App. to App. G—to the observations of Mr. Blechynden in Para. 5 of his Letter E. 14. of said App. page Ixxv. Be so good as to state whether, in your opinion, the carrying a Canal through Dry ground in the direction suggested by His Lordship, would be attended with any, and what, beneficial effects, as compared with a Channel through the Lakes. 1st. In regard to the Navigation. 2nd. In regard to the question of Draining the Marsh. A No. I. Capt. A. H. E. Boileau, (Engi- neers,) 11th Feb. 18<11. Appendix G. page 1. Appendix G. page 47.