It is now about eight months since I had the: privilege of passing over the Imperial reason—aupposed injury to the business of the city—they were supported by the people of the city. Hence the present line of the road. Both these classes now iso that they. made 'a great mistake, and that the railway would have brought to them
appears ly stupid on the part of the exceedingly vexed at their stupidity. Tt tinct advantages, and they are therefore
Government to have changed the original plan and taken the ead through a tract of low-lying country where there are no large towns and searesly any chance of freight, and where it will require the expenditure of thousands of taels annually to protect the road bed against the overflow of the Hun (muddy) river.
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