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It will be seen from the preceding table that the total sum 

 expended on the survey in Scotland from its commencement to the 

 present time, has been only £66,000 ; while the sum expended in 

 England is ^702,000 ; and in Ireland, £820,000 ; and that, in 

 June 1849, the number of men employed in Ireland was 1210, 

 while in Scotland the number employed was only 257. 



The average annual expenditure on the survey of Scotland during 

 the forty-one years of its progress has been only £1609, or, omitting 

 the sixteen years when the operations were suspended, £2640 ; while 

 on that of Ireland the average expenditure has been nearly £40,000 

 per annum. In the Parliamentary reports on this subject, it is stated 

 that, in 1843, the sum ^oted for the survey of the whole kingdom 

 was £60,000, of which only £9000 was appropriated to Scotland ; 

 and, since 1843, the sum allotted to the survey of Scotland has ave- 

 raged little more than £10,000 per annum, the same amount which 

 is voted annually for revising the maps of the northern counties of 

 Ireland already surveyed ! Besides the sum of £820,000 already 

 expended in Ireland, it is proposed to expend for the revisal of the 

 northern counties above alluded to, £80,000 ; and, for completing 

 the system of contour lines (now in progress), the further sum of 

 £120,000, making in all £1,020,000, exclusive of the expense of 

 engraving plans of ninety-five towns, which are surveyed and 

 drawn. 



From these reports we learn further, that the largest amount 

 hitherto granted for the purposes of the survey in Scotland in any one 

 year has been £15,000, and as admitted in evidence although larger 

 sums have frequently been voted to Scotland, they have often been 

 expended in England and Ireland. The consequence of this treat- 

 ment has been, that, after a lingering progress extending over a 

 period of forty-one years, the survey of Scotland is still little more 

 than begun, the map of only one county, that of Wigton, forming 

 about a sixty-fourth part of the area of the country, being published, 

 while the survey of the whole of Ireland has been completed and 

 published for several years, having been commenced in 1825 and 

 finished in 1843, and that of England is now nearly finished. 



A very general feeling exists in the public mind that, in this 

 matter, Scotland has experienced most unmerited neglect, and since 

 the expectation of immediate progress, occasioned by the fact that 

 the Ordnance surveyors have occupied the ground, is doomed to 



