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certain disappointment if things are allowed to continue as they 

 are, it is to be hoped that means may at once be devised for ensuring 

 a more satisfactory result. 



The desired object might probably be best attained by such an 

 arrangement as would ensure the entry, in the annual Ordnance 

 estimates, of a specific sum to be devoted to this special purpose. 



The amount needed depends of course on the time within which it is 

 required to finish the work. It is shown in the table that, at the 

 present rate of progress, fiftyyears would be necessary for its accom- 

 plishment. Now, assuming that the efficiency of the force would be 

 in direct proportion to the numbers employed, and since the numbers 

 are dependent on the money grants, it is clear that five times the 

 present force or five times the amount granted would finish the 

 survey in a fifth part of the time, or in ten years. The sum at 

 present voted for the survey in all parts of the kingdom is £60,000, 

 but it is shown in evidence, that if the whole force of surveyors and 

 others capable of conducting the work are to be taken into pay, the 

 sum of £100,000 will be required. Now, if the difference between 

 the amount granted and that required — £40,000 a year — were 

 voted to Scotland (in addition to the average sum of £10,000), the 

 survey of this portion of the country would be completed in ten 

 years from this date, and that without prejudice to the surveys now 

 carried on in England and Ireland. But if it should be objected 

 that the sum of £100,000 a year is more than could now be granted 

 for this purpose, the question remains whether, if it cannot be 

 otherwise attained, the speedy completion of the survey in Scot- 

 land should not be secured by suspending for a time the opera- 

 tions for contouring the map of Ireland, and for revising the 

 survey of its northern portion. 



Should the necessary funds be granted, it is satisfactory to know 

 that a sufficient number of competent and well-trained surveyors and 

 others formerly employed in Ireland, but whose services are not 

 now required there, may at once be engaged on the survey in Scot- 

 land, and that the engraving of the maps can be carried on simul- 

 taneously with the surveying, so that no delay in the pubhcation 

 would be occasioned on this account. 



Having recently had an opportunity of inspecting the Ordnance 

 Survey Office at Southampton, so ably conducted under the direc- 

 tion of Colonel Hall and Captain YoUand, I have pleasure in bear- 



