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remains for
nie to offer a few remarks arising
out of what has thus come before me.

After his perusal of the facts here adduced,
let me draw the readers attention to the ob­
servations of Lord Valentia, as applied to
Bruce, page 223, vol. ii.
“ When a person attempts to give geogra­

phical information, it is necessary that this
information should be accurate, and that he
should not advance as certain a single cir­
cumstance of which he had not previously in­
formed himself.”
Yet the noble traveller considers hearsay
evidence (for he never saw the northern
Makowar) not only sufficient to warrant his
impugning the veracity of that information
which subsequent observation has proved to

be wholly correct, but also to justify his
bringing forward a charge the most grave
that can be preferred against a traveller or a

gentleman, which also proves to be equally
captious and groundless.
All charts are, or ought to be, accurate in
proportion to the means afforded for, and the
time consumed in, constructing of them.
Lord Valentia, whose observations on these