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3. That the survey and plotting on the two-inch scale be 

 proceeded with as rapidly as is consistent with accuracy, 

 with the view to the publication within ten years of a one- 

 inch map, shaded and engraved in a manner similar to the 

 Ordnance one-inch map of England. 



Orders in conformity with these recommendations were 

 given to the Ordnance officers, and in the summer of last 

 year, the survey for the one-inch scale was proceeded with, but 

 as soon as this change became known to the public, great dis- 

 satisfaction was very generally expressed, and numerous in- 

 fluential meetings were held in several counties, in Edinburgh, 

 Glasgow, and many of the principal towns, to memorialize 

 the Government to proceed with the survey of Scotland as 

 as they had begun it. On the receipt of these memorials, 

 the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr Disraeli) ordered the 

 survey for the one-inch scale to be discontinued, and the 

 counties of Haddington and Fife to be surveyed on the six-inch 

 scale, and that no other county should be taken up " till this 

 important subject shall have received further investigation." 



It is greatly to be regretted that so much time and money 

 should have been lost, but it was obviously better to stop the 

 work for the small scale at once, than to allow it to proceed, 

 and produce dissatisfaction in the country, with the prospect 

 of eventually losing more time and money on a work not cal- 

 culated to meet the wants of the Government, and the country 

 at large. 



Most of the memorials have appeared in the journals of 

 the day, but we select that from the gentlemen of Dumfries- 

 shire, as expressing what appears to us to be the general 

 feeling of the people of Scotland upon this subject. 



" To the Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Her 

 Majesty's Treasury, the humble memorial of the Com- 

 missioners of Supply of the County of Dumfries, 



" Sheweth, — That the memorialists had under considera- 

 tion at their annual meeting held in April last, which was 

 numerously attended, the subject of the Ordnance Survey of 

 Scotland, when they had occasion to express their regret at 

 the delay which has taken place in the prosecution of it; 

 and on the motion of Sir William Jardine of Applegarth,. it 



