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Concan. The Chief Engineer considered " the offer creditable to the 

 activity of the officer;" and Lieut. -Colonel Kennedy recommended 

 that he should be permitted to commence on the proposed under- 

 taking, as being in all respects highly qualified for executing such a 

 work ; arid the Governor in Council authorized his being employed 

 in making the survey whenever he could be spared from his other 

 duties as Executive Engineer. He was thanked by letter on the 

 5th December 1820, by Mr. Pelly, the Collector and Magistrate in 

 the Southern Concan, for the admirable internal organization of his 

 department, and was then placed at the disposal of the Commander-in- 

 Chief, to be employed on an expedition against the pirates in Arabia. 



His Eeport on Weights and Measures was noticed as "highly 

 creditable to his talents and philosophical researches," and obtained 

 a special acknowledgment from the Government, dated July 1822, 

 which expressed their approbation of the ability and research it 

 displayed. 



In 1824 Lieut. -Colonel Sutherland, Deputy Surveyor- General, 

 bore testimony to the value of Lieut. Jervis's services as a Trigono- 

 metrical Surveyor, and in the same year the Government expressed 

 its approbation of the " zeal and diligence he had displayed in the 

 preparation of certain Revenue and Statistical papers ;" and in June 

 1826, noticed in terms of approbation his "able and intelligent 

 Eeport on the State of Education in the Concan." 



In 1829 the Commander-in-Chief (Sir Thomas Bradford) sub- 

 mitted to Government, Captain Jervis's application to be appointed 

 Deputy Surveyor- General of India, on the death of the Surveyor- 

 General, with his Excellency's warmest and most unqualified re- 

 commendation that it should be complied with. " Captain Jervis," 

 his Excellency adds, "was employed under the late General Mudge, 

 from whom he has the highest testimonials, in the grand # Trigono- 

 metrical Survey of England in 1812. His Excellency conceives him 

 to be the most qualified person that could possibly be selected for 

 the situation to which he aspires." 



He was appointed Inspecting Engineer of the Surat division in De- 

 cember 1829 ; Superintending Engineer at the Presidency in 1830 ; 

 in the same year Acting Inspecting Engineer in Guzerat ; afterwards 

 Executive Engineer in Ahmednuggur, and Acting Executive En- 

 gineer in Belgaum, in March 1831. 



The Government expressed their satisfaction at the zeal and energy 

 he had displayed in prosecuting his researches, and for information 

 he had afforded respecting slate-quarries discovered in the Southern 

 Mahratta country. In 1833 the church built by him at Belgaum 

 was stated to reflect great credit i on his taste ; and the following 

 extract from a letter addressed to Captain Jervis, dated 8th August, 

 1831, will show the high estimation he had then acquired : — " The 

 Governor in Council, highly appreciating the value of your labours, 

 and desirous of securing to the Government and the public all the 

 benefits that can be derived from them, accepts your offer to prepare 

 a copy of your Statistical . Memoir of the Concan in a complete state 

 and form for publication." 



