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Title

The Ganges Canal

Authors

• Cautley, Proby T. Sir, 1802-1871,

Other related names

• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

LJS 222
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 6050374
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6050374

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English, with at least one brief section in French (Volume 2, p. 1122-1123) and a copy of a worker's agreement in Urdu (Hindustani) (Volume 3, f. 156r)

Origin

Date

1854

Place

India

Summary

Manuscript of an extensive illustrated report on the construction of the Ganges Canal, published in 1860 as Report on the Ganges Canal works from their commencement until the opening of the canal in 1854. The manuscript includes corrections and notes to the printer, some in Proby Cautley's hand, which were incorporated into the printed edition. The report describes the planning, surveying, financial record keeping, engineering, and construction of the canal, which was intended for both navigation and irrigation. The third volume is a collection of appendices including manuscript records, printed documents marked up for re-publication, and foldout tables (f. 99, 325) and documents (f. 157, 286-287, 290, 293, 296, 299-300, 305). One of the manuscript appendices is a list of the books in the Ganges Canal Professional Library in 1854.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from spine titles.
   

Watermark

In pale blue paper, most frequently a female figure holding a spear, seated on a wheel, enclosed in an oval cartouche with countermark Lumsden & Son/1852; years from 1850 to 1853 are found in some countermarks.

Extent

3 volumes (334 leaves + 1 note, 306, 329 leaves) : Volumes 1-2: 325 x 200 (300 x 100-105) mm. bound to 345 x 230 mm.; Volume 3: 260-330 x 85-205, with additional foldout height up to 400 mm. and width up to 1240 mm

Foliation

Volume 1: Paper, i + 334 leaves ; [i-ii, 1], 2-141, [i-iii, 142-195, i-ii, 196-211, i-iv, 212-235, i-iv, 236-531, i-xii, 532-641], contemporary pagination in ink (1-141), upper outer corners, and sporadic later pagination in pencil (142-641), upper outer corners and inner margins; catchwords lower right corners. Volume 2: Paper, i + 306 + i leaves; [642-665, i-ii, 666-879, 890-1123, i-ii, 1124-1137, i-ii, 1138-1279, i-ii, 1280-1339, 1339-1358, i-ii, 1359-1452], sporadic later pagination in pencil, upper outer corners and inner margins; catchwords lower right corners. Volume 3: Paper, i + 329 + i leaves; unfoliated.

Support

Paper

Binding

Later half morocco; gilt title and volume numbers; marbled endpapers.

Layout

Volumes 1-2 written in 41-45 lines, in the outer half of each page, with the inner half of the page used for occasional notes and corrections; Volume 3 in multiple formats, including large ledger pages bound in with their lines parallel to the spine.

Decoration

172 numbered diagrams in Volumes 1 and 2, including schematic maps, topographical cross-sections, and mechanical cross-sections, many with colored inks and washes; 162 of the diagrams are small images in the text; 10 are plates in ink or in color (Volume 1, after p. 195, 211, 235; Volume 2, after p. 665, 1123, 1137 (a foldout), 1279, 1358). Volume 3 has additional diagrams and plates, including plates dated 1853 signed by Dilla Ram or Dillam (f. 8v, 15r, 20r) and Mooshtaq Ahmud (f. 11r, 17r), and a long foldout showing the segment of the canal in Kānpur (written Cawnpoor in the manuscript, f. 285). Many leaves seem to have had the orginal diagrams cut out and replacements pasted in; and some diagrams have notes to the printer pasted near them.

Script

Written in cursive script; text of Volumes 1-2 written by a single hand, probably a secretary, with marginal notes and corrections in ink and pencil in multiple hands, including that of Proby T. Cautley (usually in pencil); manuscript appendices in Volume 3 by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Asher Rare Books (Houten, the Netherlands), cat. 27, no. 30.
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 53.
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
   

Subjects topical

• Engineering
• Canals--India--History--19th century

Genres

• Codices
• Accounts
• Diagrams
• Pen-and-wash drawings
• Book catalogs
• Manuscripts for publication
• Manuscripts, English--19th century
• Manuscripts, Digital

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• 1 (V.1) — Chapter 1, Preliminary period under the directorship of Lieutenant Colonel P. T. Cautley, from 1839 to 1845, p. 1 (V.1)
• 47 (V.1) — Chapter 2, Intermediate period under the directorship of Major W. E. Baker, from 1845 to 1848, p. 47 (V.1)
• 97 (V.1) — Chapter 3, Final period under the directorship of Lieutenant Colonel P. T. Cautley, from 1848 to 1854, p. 91 (V.1)
• fol. 2r (V.3) — Appendix A, On the supply of materials to the Northern Division works, f. 2r (V.3)
• fol. 39r (V.3) — Appendix B, Report of a committee assembled ... to report on the unhealthiness of Kurnal, f. 39r (V.3)
• fol. 82r (V.3) — Appendix C, Manner of keeping accounts in the Canal Department and form of quarterly bills, f. 82r (V.3)
• fol. 139r (V.3) — Appendix D, General instructions to executive officers of the Ganges Canal works, f. 139r (V.3)
• fol. 160r (V.3) — Appendix E, Major Baker's report on the Ganges Canal works on making over charge, f. 160r (V.3)
• fol. 177v (V.3) — Appendix F, Calculations for discharges and capacities of channels from report of 1845, f. 177v (V.3)
• fol. 189r (V.3) — Appendix G, Tabular statements of measurements of Hindun River, f. 189r (V.3)
• fol. 191r (V.3) — Appendix H, Instructions for forming embankments and plantations, f. 191r (V.3)
• fol. 196r (V.3) — Appendix I, Table of depression of arches on striking centres, f. 196r (V.3)
• fol. 211r (V.3) — Appendix J, Table of certain statistics of each work, f. 211r (V.3)
• fol. 231r (V.3) — Appendix K, Reports on Dima?t and Bhosa?n Bridges, f. 231r (V.3)
• fol. 238r (V.3) — Appendix L, System of account keeping introduced into the Roorkee workshops by Mr. Harry Masters, f. 238r (V.3)
• fol. 272r (V.3) — Appendix M, List of books in Ganges Canal library, f. 272r (V.3)
• fol. 282r (V.3) — Appendix N, Valuation statements of property at Cawnpoor falling within the canal boundaries, f. 282r (V.3)
• fol. 309r (V.3) — Appendix O, Captain Goodwyn's report on the sinking of the Solani Aqueduct foundation blocks, f. 309r (V.3)
• fol. 326r (V.3) — Appendix P, Table of depressions of the Solani Aqueduct arches on removing centerings, f. 326r (V.3)

Decorations

• 23 (V.1) — Diagram, p. 23 (V.1)
• 52 (V.1) — Diagram, p. 52 (V.1)
• fol. 7v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 7v (V.3)
• fol. 8r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 8r (V.3)
• fol. 10v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 10v (V.3)
• fol. 11r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 11r (V.3)
• fol. 12v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 12v (V.3)
• fol. 13r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 13r (V.3)
• fol. 14v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 14v (V.3)
• fol. 15r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 15r (V.3)
• fol. 16v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 16v (V.3)
• fol. 17r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 17r (V.3)
• fol. 18v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 18v (V.3)
• fol. 19v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 19v (V.3)
• fol. 20r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 20r (V.3)
• fol. 25v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 25v (V.3)
• fol. 141r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 141r (V.3)
• fol. 141v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 141v (V.3)
• fol. 142r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 142r (V.3)
• fol. 145v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 145v (V.3)
• fol. 163v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 163v (V.3)
• fol. 167v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 167v (V.3)
• fol. 169r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 169r (V.3)
• fol. 170r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 170r (V.3)
• fol. 176r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 176r (V.3)
• fol. 176v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 176v (V.3)
• fol. 181r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 181r (V.3)
• fol. 184r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 184r (V.3)
• fol. 186v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 186v (V.3)
• fol. 187v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 187v (V.3)
• fol. 188r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 188r (V.3)
• fol. 192r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 192r (V.3)
• fol. 193v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 193v (V.3)
• fol. 194r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 194r (V.3)
• fol. 195r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 195r (V.3)
• fol. 195v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 195v (V.3)
• fol. 235r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 235r (V.3)
• fol. 237r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 237r (V.3)
• fol. 283v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 283v (V.3)
• fol. 284r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 284r (V.3)
• fol. 285v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 285v (V.3)
• fol. 311r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 311r (V.3)
• fol. 312v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 312v (V.3)
• fol. 313r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 313r (V.3)
• fol. 314r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 314r (V.3)
• fol. 315r (V.3) — Diagram, f. 315r (V.3)
• fol. 315v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 315v (V.3)
• fol. 326v (V.3) — Diagram, f. 326v (V.3)