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him will suffice to render him more careful of his 

 health, less ready to undertake dangerous employments, 

 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 ' bachelorhood is 

 more destructive to life than the most unwholesome 

 trades, or than residence in an unwholesome 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 " It is 

 not good that man should live alone.'" 



(From the Daily Nercs, 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 Govern or- 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 



