. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . now, by the Peninsular and Oriental steamers, a train will ar-rive in India every day, bringing a large number of passengersand the latest mail from the whole Western world. The present extension of the European system of railroadstowards the Indian interior warrants this anticipation. Railroadextensions already in progress, from Russia eastward and fromIndia westward, when completed, will make the interval only a * Mackenzie, u How India is Governed, p. 51 ff. t Eden, India, Historical and Descriptive, p. 115. (Lond. 1876.) RAILROADS.
. Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon . now, by the Peninsular and Oriental steamers, a train will ar-rive in India every day, bringing a large number of passengersand the latest mail from the whole Western world. The present extension of the European system of railroadstowards the Indian interior warrants this anticipation. Railroadextensions already in progress, from Russia eastward and fromIndia westward, when completed, will make the interval only a * Mackenzie, u How India is Governed, p. 51 ff. t Eden, India, Historical and Descriptive, p. 115. (Lond. 1876.) RAILROADS.—CANALS.—TELEGRAPHS P08TA1 SYSTEM [29 matter of eight hundred and fifty-seven miles, over which a rail-way can be built at a cost of Less than tour million pounds sterling. Marvin savsthat the present indica-tions are that the gapwill very soon be onlytwo hundred miles; thatalready some of the gatesof Herat are in the Post-al Union, and that a let-ter can be sent by theRussian ambassadorfrom London to Ali-khanoff at Pul-i-khisti for a penny. -:?:-. With a fair allowancemade for detentions aris-ing from the collision ofEnglish and Russian in-terests, it can hardly bemore than eight yearsbefore the line will beunbroken between Cal-ais and Calcutta, andthat the Governor-Gen-eral of India will receivehis mail eight days afterleaving the London post-office. The government hasbeen equally attentiveto the construction ofcanals. During the su-premacy of the nativerulers as much was donefor irrigation as couldhave been expected ofmen whose chief busi-ness was warfare. Many of the present canals are made to serve THE OCEAN OF Milk V» m vi i \ nil:i; \ \ v vi i i r. OH THE WEST-Ol iMl \PORTI .i I BE R Ml w \Y. * The Russians at the Gates of Herat, Am< r. ed., pp. 157 tV. 0 130 INDIKA. the double purpose of bearing produce and articles of mer-chandise and of irrigating the fields. The wells in some vil-lages are sunk for drinking purposes, but the great mass ofthe tens of* thou
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