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The one-inch quarter sheets and the six-inch sheets are published 

 and sold at prices which place them within reach of every one to 

 whom they are likely to be of use ; and no one in the United 

 Kingdom need be without a beauciful and accurate topographical 

 map of his neighbourhood ; or an exact plan of his property or 

 holding. Equally good maps are now either completed, or in 

 rapid progress, for all European countries, and are the most 

 serviceable instruments in the hands of the statesman, the ad- 

 ministrator, and the statistician ; as well as the most indispensable 

 guides for the student of history, the engineer, the lawyer, and 

 the farmer. The uses indeed of maps based on accurate surveys 

 are too various for concise enumeration ; for there is no public 

 department, and few private enterprises or investigations which 

 do not require the assistance of maps. 



In British India the utilisation of the surveys by the publi- 

 cation of maps on adequate scales has of late years made rapid 

 progress under the able superintendence of Colonel Thuillier. 



The Indian Atlas -was commenced in 1827, and designed to 

 occupy 177 sheets, on a scale of four miles to an inch, and it 

 is now approaching completion ; while larger-scale topographical 

 and revenue maps, and plans of towns and stations, promptly 

 utilise the surveying work that is done in the field each year. In 

 the colonies such work is not so far advanced ; but trigono- 

 metrical surveys have either been organized or are about to be 

 commenced ; while the United States surveys are in full opera- 

 tion. In other countries, which have been surveyed trigono- 

 metrically, the work in the field has also been utilised, and 

 made available for the public, with more or less promptitude. 

 Thus in France a cheap edition of the topographical map is in 

 course of publication; in Belgium the Government maps are 

 on double the scale of those in France, in consequence of the 

 minute subdivision of holdings ; in Switzerland the completed 

 map, in twenty-five sheets, brought out under the auspices of 

 General Dufour, appeared in 1866 ; and in all other European 



