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MEMOIR OF SIR HENRY YULE 1849-52.
effect on the health of the people of the Doab is, or is not,
likely to be produced by the contemplated Ganges Canal."
" A very elaborate investigation was made by the Committee,
directed principally to ascertaining what relation subsisted
between certain physical conditions of the different districts, and
the liability of their inhabitants to miasmatic fevers." The
principal conclusion of the Committee was, " that in the extensive
epidemic of 1843, when Kurnaul suffered so seriously . . . the
greater part of the evils observed had not been the necessary
and unavoidable results of canal irrigation, but were due to
interference with the natural drainage of the country, to the
saturation of stiff and retentive soils, and to natural dis-
advantages of site, enhanced by excess of moisture. As regarded
the Ganges Canal, they were of opinion that, with due attention
to drainage, improvement rather than injury to the general
health might be expected to follow the introduction of canal
irrigation." 34 In an unpublished note written about 1889, Yule
records his ultimate opinion as follows " At this day, and after
the large experience afforded by the Ganges Canal, I feel sure
that a verdict so favourable to the sanitary results of canal
irrigation would not be given." Still the fact remains that
the Ganges Canal has been the source of unspeakable blessings
to an immense population.
The Second Sikh War saw Yule again with the army in
the field, and on 13th Jan. 1849, he was present at the dismal
` Victory ' of Chillianwallah, of which his most vivid recollection
seemed to be the sudden apparition of Henry Lawrence, fresh
from London, but still clad in the legendary Afghan cloak.
On the conclusion of the Punjab campaign, Yule, whose
health had suffered, took furlough and went home to his wife.
For the next three years they resided chiefly in Scotland,
though paying occasional visits to the Continent, and about 1850
Yule bought a house in Edinburgh. There he wrote " The
African Squadron vindicated (a pamphlet which was after-
wards re-published in French), translated Schiller's Kampf
mit dem Drachen into English verse, delivered Lectures
on Fortification at the, now long defunct, Scottish Naval and
Military Academy, wrote on Tibet for his friend Blackwood's
;4 Yule and Maclagan's 1llemoir of Baker.
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