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roads permit of carriage in wagons, the peril to a fragile instru- 
tent is not much less. One gentleman recentl informed me 
office has recently introduced a lighter class o vehicles for 
“asier and quicker transmission éF the mails; and as the 
government is providing for the construction of roads between 
all the principal towns, I hope for better success in the distri- 
bution of the instruments,—since every existing’ facility 1s 
afforded with the utmost cordiality and liberality by the ad- 
ministrative officers. 
°peration of about fifteen correspondents, of whom ten are 
Matter requiring far more effort and care in t is country 
Sia seemed the far wiser policy to al! ; 
Simply at securing a few elementary data, than by asking for 
‘any and varied observations to imperil the accuracy and sys- 
tematic character of the whole, and ineur danger of deterring 
Observers from an undertaking which might appear to them 
