enquiry improved its supplements in 1798 and 99 and some encouragement was then held forth that induced perseverance tho' little effectual assistance was given. My removal* from any share in the direction of the Deckan surveys in 1806, put a stop to the further improvement of this Map; yet the subject has not been neglected and it is hoped may one day be resumed on the revival of the materials since collected, though on a more circumscribed scale than what was once intended.
"In returning to Hydrabad in 1798, for the third time, tQ resume the investigation of Deckan Geography, measures were proposed, and in part methodized fpr analizing the whole Deckan; and before 1799, considerable help was attained by obtaining a copy of the regular official Dufter of the Deckan in its provincial and even minuter divisions which has been since translated from the Persian; as well as
- It U too late now to -apply a reniody and too painfu] to refer to
Drjg^^a] Dacui7ieni« to sjbow how hj^ iuo«l: pubjic spirited ptaysibie reafony may be advanced for measures rnosl absurd and hurtful to the Interests of the Public and of Science; otherwise this might be pro- ioced as an additional instance of the erroneous measures in those ^imef. A^l 4b9it hs^.h^n intendeid and partly exec;ut^4 by tiie nieivsuraf encouraged jn t^e .Qpyerproent of Lord CprnwaJIis and Welleslejr vras nearly overset, and almost lost sieht of ever since, and though our arms now occupy positions in the most distant parts of the Deck- an, no ayttematic ptonifl yet adopted for concentrating the results abd corabinalions of our raarchesanii exj^ejoftLv^ iftfveysj.n that country i^tp (laipre correct Xjlenej-alMpp*
