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health, less ready to undertake dangerous employ- 

 ments, and so on; and there are other reasons which 

 will occur to everyone for considering the life of a 

 married man better (in the sense of the insurance 

 companies) than that of a bachelor. In fact, while we 

 are compelled to reject Dr. Stark's statement that 

 6 bachelorhood is more destructive to life than the most 

 unwholesome trades, or than residence in an unwhole- 

 some house or district, where there has never been the 

 most distant attempt at sanitary improvement of any 

 kind,' we may safely accept his opinion that statistics 

 ' prove the truth of one of the first natural laws 

 revealed to man u It is not good that man should 

 live alone." Whether the law required any proof is 

 a question into which we need not enter. 



(From the Daily News, October 17, 1868.) 



THE TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 



AT the close of the war with Tippoo Sahib, Major 

 Lambton planned the triangulation of the country lying 

 between Madras and the Malabar coast, a district 

 which had been roughly surveyed during the progress 

 of the war by Colonel Mackenzie. The Duke of 

 Wellington gave his approval to the project, and his 

 brother, the Governor-General of India, and Lord Clive 

 (son of the great Clive), Governor of Madras, used 

 their influence to aid Major Lambton in carrying out 

 his design. The only astronomical instrument made 



