The Revenue Survey is presided over by the Surveyor-General of India, Colonel Thuillier, F.R.S., late Bengal Artillery, who has for many years devoted himself specially to this work, and to whom India is indebted for many improvements.
And now, Gentlemen, I have finished my lectures, and would fain hope that they have given you half as much pleasure in listening to them as I have had in preparing them. The field was so vast that I could easily have extended their length and their number; but my object has been rather to awaken your interest and stimulate your curiosity than to supersede your reading.
FOOTNOTES:
[A] I remember a native’s answer to a remark of mine, which shows that there are always two sides to a question, even a question of improvement. His Persian wheel, near to which my tent had been pitched, kept me awake all night with its abominable creaking, and I asked him in the morning why he didn’t use grease to stop the noise? He said, “I am accustomed to it, and if the creaking ceases I wake up; I know the wheel has stopped because the bullock-driver has gone to sleep, and I go out and beat him.”
[B] The Grand Trunk Road having been first metalled with kunkur when Lord William Bentinck was Governor-General, that distinguished nobleman was called by some facetious engineer, William the Kunkurer.
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[WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.]
A Year’s Campaigning in India, from March 1857 to March 1858, comprising accounts of the Expedition against the Bozdars—The Sieges of Delhi and Lucknow—Seaton’s Campaign in the Doab.
Lectures delivered at the Thomason College, Roorkee. 1. The Soldiers and Armies of Ancient Times—2. The Soldiers and Armies of Modern Times—3. English Literature from Chaucer to Addison—4. The Great Indian Mutiny.