The Civil-Engineer and Surveyor's Manual: Comprising Surveying, Engineering, Practical Astronomy, Geodetical Jurisprudence, Analyses of Minerals, Soils, Grains, Vegetables, Valuation of Lands, Buildings, Permanent Structures, Etc (Classic Reprint)

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I spent my time about equally divided between making surveys for the Home (british) Goverment four years, and the Provincial Government, and private citizens, until I left Bytown in September, 1849, having thrown up an excellent situation on the Ordnance Department. I never can forget the happy days I have been employed on ordnance surveys in Ireland, under lieutenants Brougton and Laney. In Canada, under the supervision of Lieutenants White and King, and Colonel Thompson, of the Royal Engineers. Ln my surveys for the Provincial Government of Canada, I, always found on. Andrew Russell and Joseph Bouchette, Surveyor Generals, and Thomas Devine, l'lsq., Head of Surveys, my warmest friends. They are uow - October 7, 1878 - living at the head of their respective old Departments, having lived a long life of usefulness, which I hape will be prolonged. To Sir William Logan, Provincial Geologist, I am indebted for much information. 1 li\ cd nearly eight years in Ottawa, Canada, where my friends were very nu merous. The dearest of all to me was Alphonso Wells, Provincial Land Surveyor, who was the best sur veyor I ever met. He had been so badly frost-bitten on a Government survey that it was the remote cause of his death.

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