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with those usual in Great Britain, and considering the 

 hardships attendant on this peculiar service. The appoint- 

 ment of the engineers we necessarily hold in our hands, 

 and select them under the obligation of our oaths ; the 

 appointment of the surveyors we commit entirely to the 

 engineers, holding the latter responsible for the qualifica- 

 tions of the persons they employ. 



" We account with every engineer once a week, and he 

 makes his return to us upon his oath. 



" To ccive an idea of the scale and nature of our expen- 

 diture, we subjoin, as the second and third articles of our 

 Appendix, copies of accounts already called for by your 

 honourable house. 



" Owing to- the winter season having set in, almost im- 

 mediately after the appointment of the engineers, and which 

 was particularly unfavourable to the execution of the sur- 

 vey, We have as yet received but one of their reports, al- 

 though thev are most of them, we believe, in a state of con- 

 siderable forwardness. 



" This report we have determined on laying at once be- 

 fore vour honourable house, considering it as sufficient in 

 itself, to enable the public to form a pretty accurate opinion 

 of the degree of information which may be expected from 

 the execution of our commission ; and feeling also, that if 

 we deferred it any longer, we should have no other oppor- 

 tunity before the opening: of the next session : we have ac- 

 cordinglv subjoined it as the fourth article of the Appendix 

 to this Report. 



" The district reported on contains 36,430 English acres 

 of bog, and forms the eastern extremity of the Bog of Al- 

 len. The map furnished to us by Mr. Griffith is on a scale 

 of four inches to an Irish mile, and is accompanied by 

 sections of the bog of nearly 200 miles in extent. 



" As these maps and sections could not be engraved 

 without enormous expense, we have subjoined to this re- 

 port a map executed on a scale as much reduced as is con- 

 sistent with clearness, and which scale we propose to ap- 

 ply universally in the different maps which in the execution 

 of the commission it will become our duty to furnish to 

 your honourable house; and this map we have accompanied 

 with three lines of sections of the bog, to serve at once as 

 specimens of the manner in which the sections are ex- 

 ecuted, and to convey a clearer view than could be expressed 

 in words, of the internal structure of a great bog ; a view, 

 we believe, materially different from any of those generally 

 received. 



" Thcra 



