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of which purposes the smaller maps would be of compara- 

 tively little use, and for the more important would be of no 

 service whatever. 



" The larger map would not merely be valuable for present 

 purposes ; as an authentic record of the state of the country, 

 and the boundaries of properties, parishes, and counties, it 

 would in after ages be regarded with interest, and be found 

 of great use in tracing the progress of improvement and the 

 changes occurring in the course of time. 



" The memorialists have respectfully to submit that there 

 is no valid reason why Scotland should not have the benefit 

 of a national survey on the enlarged scale. She contributed 

 a proportion of the expense of the survey of the sister coun- 

 tries. There are extensive tracts of as wild country in Ireland 

 as in Scotland, and upon the utility of surveying the former 

 country on the large scale, the argument that large plans of 

 such waste grounds were unnecessary was never raised. It 

 appears to the memorialists, therefore, that it would be unjust 

 to give Scotland inferior maps on the ground of expense* 

 Besides, it is of manifest importance, in a national point of 

 view, to have uniform connected maps, applicable to the entire 

 United Kingdom." 



These memorials would seem to have decided the Govern- 

 ment to give to Scotland the benefit of a survey not inferior 

 to that of Ireland ; and we see, by a correspondence recently 

 published between Sir Charles Trevelyan and Major Larcon, 

 H.E., the present Under-secretary for Ireland, to whose 

 energy and ability the perfection of the agricultural statistics 

 of that country is mainly due, that the question of the best 

 scales for the survey of Scotland is still under consideration. 

 Major Larcon is asked if the six-inch survey of Ireland has 

 fulfilled the objects for which it was designed, and whether, 

 if the survey of that country had to be done over again, he 

 would propose a larger scale ; to this he replies, that the 

 survey has fulfilled all the objects expected from it, and that 

 he should recommend the same scale if the work had to be 

 gone over again, and recommends that it should be extended 

 to the whole of Scotland. Mr Griffiths, to whom these replies 

 were communicated, concurs fully in these views, which are 



