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 morning. There are alternative ways of doing this. If the causeway is practicable, it can be tried, but as it is far off the direct road and means three miles very hard work pushing the machine, we do not advise giving it a trial. It is more comfortable and expeditious to cross in either a country boat or a jolly boat if one can be borrowed from the Engineering Department at Baroon. It a pleasant change this boating across. There are verdant churs with tall grass and food stuffs growing down to the water's edge; wild fowl are very plentiful; country boats are sailing or being towed close into the banks. Note the wonderful anicut and the immense spans of telegraph wire across the river, the distant hills with Rhotasghur standing out prominently. Dehree is noted as the site of the head engineering works of the Sone canals. There are large workshops here, and the place has a busy occupied appearance to which we have been strangers since we left Assansol. It was here that the P. W. D. Engineering College was started, which now flourishes at Seebpore.