. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . leted by the middleof February; and within a week from that time,the works were extended to the village of Kadikoi,where a railway depot was established. Fewmechanical works reward the worker more readilythan a railway, since every finished mile facilitatesthe transport of men and materials to the portionsyet unfinished ; thus it was in the Crimea, whereeach section became practically useful from theday when the rails were laid down. While the works were in progress, nearly 1000 men wereemployed ; the ch
. Pictorial history of the Russian War, 1854-5-6 : with maps, plans, and wood engravings . leted by the middleof February; and within a week from that time,the works were extended to the village of Kadikoi,where a railway depot was established. Fewmechanical works reward the worker more readilythan a railway, since every finished mile facilitatesthe transport of men and materials to the portionsyet unfinished ; thus it was in the Crimea, whereeach section became practically useful from theday when the rails were laid down. While the works were in progress, nearly 1000 men wereemployed ; the chaplain with his portable church,and the surgeon with his portable surgery, wereinstrumental in maintaining the moral and bodilyhealth of the men ; the purveyors and clerksattended to the necessary supplies of food, materials,and money; and the men themselves indulgedtheir fancy by giving the designations Victoria, Napoleon, London, Blackwall, and Petoto the rows of huts erected for their accommo-dation, or perchance yielded to the too Britishinclination for a pugilistic encounter among. Railway at Kadikoi—Ilead-quarters of Sir Colin Campbell. themselves—despite which, their general conductduring their sojourn in the Crimea met withapproval on all sides. Striking was the contrast afforded between therail and the wretched track-way* it horse was enabled to draw an enormouspile of planks for soldiers huts ; and it becamesorrowfully evident that many valuable lives mighthave been saved had this useful Avork been com-menced earlier. The blasting of rocks, the bridgingof small streams, the levelling of hillocks, the * There had been two routes from Balaklava to Sebastopol: onecoincident in the greater part of its length with the excellentWoronzow Road; and the other a mere farm track-way, steep,irregular, and untouched by the skill of any engineer. Until the25th of October, the date of the battle of Balaklava, the British hadpossession of the Woronzow Road, and wer
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