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department of study is too much left to chance 
amongst us. In proportion to our population, 
we possess a greater number of well-informed 
individuals than any other country, perhaps, 
except parts of Germany. But our progressive 
knowledge of the globe is not digested into con- 
venient and authentic form. Our marine charts, 
some local surveys attached to expensive publi- 
cations excepted, are, in general, so defective, 
as to disgrace a naval nation. One map-maker 
copies the antiquated blunders of another : and 
thus is error perpetuated by each succeeding 
publication ; in which the map-seller is more 
attentive to the workmanlike appearance of 
the article, than to the scientific merit of the 
performance. The revival of Levantine naviga- 
tion offers a desirable opportunity for rectifying 
the hydrography of the Black Sea .” 
Memorial presented to the Sublime Ottoman Porte, by His 
Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary, Mr. I. S. Smith. 
“ HIS Britannic Majesty’s Minister Plenipotentiary has 
already taken occasion to apprise the Sublime Ottoman 
Porte of a petition having been presented to His Majesty’s 
Government, on the part of an antient Corporation (not 
unknown to the illustrious Ottoman Ministry) entitled, by 
Royal charter, ‘ The Company of Merchants of England 
trading into the Levant Seas.’ The prayer of which petition 
is, to obtain from the Sublime Porte the same advantages 
as arc enjoyed, within the Ottoman Empire, by other more 
