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T HIE SCIEUCE 
OF 
FRONTIER DELIMITATION. 
BY 
LIEUT.-COLONEL J. K. TEOTTEE, R.A. 
' (A Lecture delivered at the Loyal Artillery Institution , Woolwich, Thursday, 10th Dec., 1896); 
Major-General F. J. Maurice, C.B., in the Chair. 
The Chairman —I am sorry to say, gentlemen, that Sir Henry 
Brackenbury very much regrets that by a mistake as to the date of 
his engagements to-night, he is not able to come down and take the 
chair here; it is a great loss to ns, because, of course, what he would have 
been able to say about the Indian and other frontiers would have been 
invaluable. I am sure we shall all like to hear Colonel Trotter, who 
will have very much to tell us, from his own experience on the Niger, 
about the subject of frontier delimitation (applause). 
Colonel Trotter— General Maurice and gentlemen, when your 
Secretary asked me to come down and deliver a lecture here on the 
subject of boundary delimitation, I accepted the invitation with little 
hesitation, but when I came to consider the matter afterwards, and to 
look at the title of the lecture he asked me to deliver, I felt that I had 
been not a little presumptuous. To deal with a subject like this, “The 
Science of Boundary Delimitation,” a man ought to be an expert in 
every branch of delimitation, and a past master in all matters of science 
connected with it. I can make no pretence at all to be anything of 
the kind; the most I can say is that I have taken part in boundary 
delimitation and that many of the conclusions which I have come to, 
that such and such a course is the right one under certain circum¬ 
stances, have been come to by adopting the opposite course myself 
and finding the disadvantage of it. All that I can do for you this 
evening is to give you some of the conclusions that I have arrived at 
from my own experience, and I know that there are some here present 
who have already taken part in frontier delimitations under circum¬ 
stances very different from those of the country that I was in, and I 
hope I may be able to gather from them some of their experiences 
which no doubt will be as interesting to me and will be able to enlighten 
me as much as anybody else. 
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