The telegraph manual: a complete history and description of the semaphoric, electric and magnetic telegraphs of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, ancient and modern.

802 QUALIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES.
Quickness and correctness in dispatching and receiving signals, knowledge of Marryat's and Bedford's Marine and River
Codes. Good character for sobriety, diligence, activity, and
good habitual health. Salary to be 100 rupees (~10) per
month, with 40 rupees for traveling expenses when employed
out of Calcutta.
SECOND CLASS —READERS.
Qualifications.-A good English education, correctness in
orthography; rapidity and precision in transmitting and reading signals by spelling, and with needle telegraphs; knowledge
of the adjustment of instruments, and of Marryat's and Bedford's codes. Salary 55 ruDees (~5.10s.) to 75 rupees (~7.10s.)
a month.
TIIRD CLASS-SIGNALERS.
Qualifications.-A good English education, correctness in
transmitting signals, and proficiency in reading signals. Salary 27- rupees (~2.15s.) a month.
FOURTH CLASS-PROBATIONERS.
Qualifications.-A good English education. A guarantee
from a guardian or parent, of readiness to enter into apprenticeship, according to government act.
Probationers receive no pay, but are permitted to learn the
practice of signaling at such stations as may be convenient, for
a period of three months, when they will be subjected to an
examination, and discharged if not found qualified for admission on the apprentice list. If employed at out-stations, or on
temporary duty, they will receive pay at the rate of 16 rupees
(~ 1.12s.) per month.
In the foregoing I have not referred to the construction of
the lines, preferring to embrace that subject in another part of
this work, especially as the peculiarities of the telegraphs
in Hindostan are different from other parts of the world.
The character of the country, the climate, and other considerations, have required from Dr. O'Shaughnessy the exercise of wonderful inventive powers. In this, he has fully met
every difficulty. And though his works exhibit a strange novelty,
yet he has consummated the enterprise with a degree of perfection,. as to construction and administration, singularly novel.
The lines of Hindostan are the most substantial in the world.
They are subjected to severe trials, and such, too, as are not
common to other climes; among which, for example, is the annoy.
ance from the monkeys playing and swinging upon the wires.