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Your Committee would also express their regret at finding that 

 more care has not been taken in the preparation of the map with 

 regard to the purely topographical or geographical portion. In 

 these respects it is altogether behind the present state of our know- 

 ledge of this country. Mr. Greenough states it to be the result of 

 twenty years' labour. It is therefore not improbable that an old 

 map of that date originally used for the recording of geological facts 

 has been continued as the basis of the present one. If a new com- 

 pilation has been made, great want of care and attention appears to 

 have been allowed in its preparation. Names of the same places are 

 in some cases repeated at points differing by whole degrees in 

 latitude, ranges of hills have been misplaced occasionally by some 

 hundred miles. In brief, your Committee consider the map so 

 wanting in accurate geographical information, that it never can 

 become the basis of a careful geological map. 



Your Committee have been unanimously impressed with the 

 strong conviction, that the time which the Court of Directors have 

 proposed for the collection and collation of more accurate informa- 

 tion regarding the Geology of the country, is much too short, to 

 admit of any really useful result being obtained. They have given 

 below a list of isolated points in which corrections are required, but 

 for any general improvement much more time will be needed. 



Your Committee desire to acknowledge the value of this map, 

 they look upon it as a most important contribution to the natural 

 history of this country ; they consider it will prove both a guide 

 and an aid to the researches of many. It will shew, however 

 imperfectly, the great desiderata in the geological history of the 

 country, and will form an index to the present state of knowledge. 

 But they conceive, that it should be allowed to remain in its 

 present state, to form a memorial of the condition of our geological 

 knowledge at the time of its publication. They think it too erro- 

 neous in many respects, to be capable of being used as the ground 

 work of an accurate map ; and they look forward with anxious 

 expectation to the time when the more detailed investigations of the 

 geological survey in this country will furnish data for such a compil- 

 ation. They can refer to the proceedings of your Society for the 

 present year in proof of these views. New light has been within 



