Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — A Forty-Mile Bridge. [ARTICLE]

A Forty-Mile Bridge.

Th 6 great projearof bridging over Talk’s Strait, separating the Island of' Ceylon from the mainland of India, for which such important advantages are claimed, is said to be again under consideration by the government of Ceylon. The strait is some forty-one miles broad at its narrowest point, bei ipg double the width of the English channel, bpt it is very shallow, in many places being not more than six feet deep. Tfie islands, reefs and chan-' nels in it have been recently accurately surveyed and mapped, .and the cost of the work, extending over .sixty-one miles* including the I'amban channel and the Adam’s bridge reef, is estimated to reach some 28,000,000 rupees. The plan of work contemplates the connection est the ends by 145 miles of railtoad with Colombo, the great harbor of Ceylon, on one side, and by ninety miles of road with Modura, the nearest point of the Indian railroad system, on the other. If narrow gauge is Used this be done, it is calculated, for 11,000,000 rupees more.—Engineering.