1835.] Biographical sketch of Col. Mctchenzle. 273 



Tying on these daties in ftitiire^ and for combining tlie 

 execution and results of the several works on one gene- 

 ral systematic plan, together with measures for preserv- 

 ing and digesting the various materials resulting from 

 the labours of several years, in connexion with a very 

 considerable reduction* of expense ; when, from the exi- 

 gencies of the military service, my professional attend- 

 ance on the expedition to Java was required by the con- 

 curring authorities of government; and I had only time 

 to deposit the materials then collected in the olhce, and 

 to propose apian for its administration during my ab- 

 sence, when my attention was necessarily called to the 

 duties of the expedition. Of that service on which I 

 embarked, v^ith all alacrity, in obedience to the wishes 

 and orders of my superiors, several detailed reports v/ere 

 submitted to government in India, to which my friends 

 need have no scruple in referring. 



22. It may not be improper here to observe, that the 

 plan proposed for the surveyor -general's department in 

 1810, besides a very considerable reduction of the ex- 

 pense previously incurred for different unconnected, and, 

 I may add, inefficient establishments of survey, einbrac- 

 €d (at the same time with a gradual extension on one 

 regular system of the usual objects of geographical de- 

 lineation) the formation of a body of statistical and his- 

 torical materials, in addition to the mass of geographi- 

 t;al and military surveys then collected and deposited by 

 me in one office, for the first time, before my departure. 

 Among these is a copy of the memoirs of the statistical 

 and geographical survey of the Mysore country, with 

 the original sections, charts, and maps constructed from 

 them, on various scales from one to twenty-four miles, 



* la the very first year, on liiig 1st D.^'onibor I8J0, the uuiuml oxponso 

 was reduced from 85,000 or r;s(li -r l(K),!i(!;) {-.loodas per auuuni, to 55. UK) 

 pagodas, by the oporatiou of t'a(> pUui Minmiil nl, and this with more etViH't 

 than in the former unconnected stcnu—as ai)i)oars from a table uf live \ cars' 

 expense, presented to govcrumoutou oUth Aiini lb!G. 



