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graphical Society, and by his co-operation and counsel add fresh 

 vigour to the active exertions of a body so eifective — the first — the 

 only learned Society in England, let me say, which has ever held 

 ont the hand of sympathy, friendship, and encouragement to the 

 Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. 



"Mr. President and Gentlemen, I thank you for having listened 

 to me so patiently, and I conclude with my earnest wishes, that the 

 prosperity of this Society may continue, until every portion of this 

 globe shall have been as satisfactorily explored and as accurately 

 delineated, as the regions under the influence of the Honourable 

 East India Company." 



