History of the Royal Sappers and Miners, Volume 2 (of 2) / From the Formation of the Corps in March 1712 to the date when its designation was changed to that of Royal Engineers

by T. W. J. Connolly

[64]. ‘Parliamentary Papers,’ Cape of Good Hope, presented February 3rd, 1852, p. 164.

[65]. ‘Times,’ May 2, 1851.

[69]. First Report of Royal Commissioners, Exhibition, App. xxv., p. 128.

[70]. Ibid., App. vi., p. 50.

[71]. Chiefly from the First Report, Royal Commissioners, Exhibition, 1851, App. vi., p. 48.

[72]. The ‘Times,’ July 2, 1851. The reference is too good to be omitted. “The training—which,” proceeds the ‘Times,’ “under Sir C. Pasley’s system they undergo, admirably prepares them for this description of work, and they have brought to it the practical experience acquired during the Irish, Scotch, and English surveys, which it will be recollected they were employed upon in compliance with a most valuable suggestion to that effect made by Colonel Reid. The plan to which we allude is a highly creditable specimen of the skill which the sappers have attained in the art of surveying.”

[73]. October 7, 1851.

[74]. October 12, 1851.

[75]. March 1, 1851, p. 130.

[76]. Apprehensive of accidents, the public registry of the numbers was, a few days before the closing of the Exhibition, abandoned at the instigation of the police authorities.