General Sir Arthur Cotton, R.E., K.C.S.I. His Life and WorkHodder & Stoughton, 1900 - 599 páginas |
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acres anicut average Bengal Bombay brought Calcutta canal capital outlay carried Cauveri cent Central Provinces channels coast Cocanada Coleroon Colonel Cotton Committee complete construction cost crops cubic yards cultivation delta district effect engineer England estimate expenditure expense extent famines in India father feet fifty five four Ganges give Godavari Godavari river Government grain Grand Anicut half hundred thousand improved inches increase India interest irrigation irrigation and navigation Kistna labour land Lord Lord George Hamilton Madras Madras Presidency ment millions native never officers Orissa Oudh population present Presidency Proby Cautley produce profit prosperity Punjab quantity question railway rain Rajahmundry remark reservoir revenue river roads rupee ryots scheme Sir Arthur Cotton Sir George Campbell sluices steamers supply Tanjore tanks things thousand tons tion tracts traffic Tungabudra twenty whole
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Página 535 - And He said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Página 59 - Carnatic, on which it must have a perpetual credit, or it perishes irretrievably. For that reason, in the happier times of India, a number, almost incredible, of reservoirs have been made in chosen places throughout the whole country ; they are formed for the greater part of mounds of earth and stones, with sluices of solid masonry; the whole constructed with admirable skill and labour, and maintained at a mighty charge.
Página 544 - I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day.
Página 368 - I crore of rupees. I am hopeful that generosity in this respect will not be a misplaced virtue, either in the direct returns that it will bring in, or in its general effect upon the prosperity of the country. For the reasons that I have named, I doubt whether irrigation can continue to do as much in the future as it has done in the past, owing to the gradual exhaustion of the majority of the big schemes. Still, even if our sphere of action is less grandiose and spacious than in bygone days, I believe...
Página 245 - You have the rain from heaven ; you have the great rivers ; and you have a great Government, which has conquered the country, and which, having conquered it, at least ought to exercise all the powers of its intellect for the purpose of saving its people from this suffering and this ruin, and ought to save this Parliament and this country from the degradation and humiliation of allowing it to be known throughout the world that millions of the subjects of the Crown in India, in the course of ten years,...
Página 59 - Carnatic is refreshed by few or no living brooks or running streams, and it has rain only at a season; but its product of rice exacts the use of water subject to perpetual command. This is the national bank of the Camatic, on which it must have a perpetual credit, or it perishes irretrievably.
Página 411 - Bahadur (may God grant him long life and greatness), my wisdom wishes that the hopes, like the fields of those thirsty people, may, by the showers of liberality and kindness, be made green and flourishing, and that the canal may in my time be renewed, aud that by conducting other waters into it, it may endure for ages.
Página 360 - ... public works. If only the country is, by means of irrigation, supplied abundantly and cheaply with food, and, by means of communications, its produce can be cheaply conveyed to the coast, Manchester is safe : its supply with the two things upon which its very existence depends cannot fail.
Página 59 - ... extent of two or three acres to five miles in circuit. From these reservoirs currents are occasionally drawn over the fields, and these watercourses again call for a considerable expense to keep them properly scoured and duly levelled. Taking the district in that map as a measure, there cannot be in the Carnatic and Tanjore fewer than ten thousand of these reservoirs of the larger and middling dimensions, to say nothing of those for domestic services, and the use of religious purification.
Página 420 - They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger : for these pins away stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.