Excerpt from India and Indian Engineering: Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Engineer Institute, Chatham, in July, 1872 In the present lecture, I shall endeavour to give you some idea of the physical features of India, its climate, its people, and of the peculiarities of Anglo Indian life. In the other lectures, I shall say some thing iof the Government, and the great Department of State by which public works are executed, and of the Special duties and probable career of the Royal Engineer officers who are there employed; and shall then pass on to the materials and modes of construc tion with which the, engineer is called upon to deal, and those specialities which distinguish his work from English practice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.