TCD MS 10515 folio 124 recto
But an hour elapsed before the “mahailha” was disentangled and the damage temporarily repaired. The position of the bridge was unfortunate, as all the supply depots, the Ordinance, Commissariat, Field, Park, were on the upstream side of the bridge so that its opening was necessaitated on every occasion. This has since been remedied. The whole bridge has been transferred further up the stream and all the depots lie below. The floods are gradually lessening and this involves a diminished labour at the bridge. Of course we daily think and talk about the weather; it is difficult to escape the subject, the prospects are too unpleasant, the present discomforts are too obvious. The clouds of heavy dust with the blazing midday