Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1888 — Canals in India. [ARTICLE]

Canals in India.

The India canals are - distinctive feature of the country. They are splendidly built, being intended principally for irrigation, although- having locks, so as to make navigation possible. The largest and most important one is the Ganges Canal, which cost the Government £2,000,0'30. It isabout 300 miles long, runs out of the Ganges and proceeds into the Ganges again. When the subject of building it was.agitated, the interesting natives vowed .they would never for an instant tolerate it, tapping as it did the sacred river of the Hindoos. Then when the work was actually begun they changed their taetics and gravely declared that water would, not- remain in or ftotV through the canal. When the fallacy of this position was-shown, they receded from it and contented themselves with solemnly asserting that, no native would ever avail himself of the improvement. It is now dn_julL-Qpera-FjeujYmwev’eiv-—’ Rabbits have been born with one eaf and stags with one horn; the rattlesnake has but one lung; both eyes of the flounder and halibut are on the same side; the claws of the lobster difi'er, and the valves of the oyster are unequal, yet all the animals and their organs are perfectly symmetrical in the embryo state.