 | John Playfair - 1822 - 552 pages
...instruments of an inferior kind, and the sum annually allowed being very inadequate to so great a design, it is rather to be considered as a magnificent military sketch, than as an accurate map of a country. At the conclusion of the peace of 1763, it came under the consideration... | |
 | John Playfait - 1822 - 550 pages
...instruments of an inferior kind, and the sum annually allowed being very inadequate to so great a design, it is. rather to be considered. as a magnificent military sketch, than as an accurate map of a country. At the conclusion of the peace of 1?63, it came under the consideration... | |
 | 1851 - 830 pages
...with inferior instruments, and the sum allowed having been very inadequate for its proper execution, it is rather to be considered as a magnificent military sketch than a very accurate map of a country." When the drafts of this map were finished, they were deposited in the Royal Library, where they lay... | |
 | 1852 - 650 pages
...inferior instru' ments, and the sum allowed having been very inadequate for its ' proper execution, it is rather to be considered as a magnificent ' military sketch than a very accurate map of a country.' With all its defects, however, the survey had great merit, and had it been published in the original... | |
 | 1865 - 838 pages
...inferiority of the instruments used, and the inadequacy of the annual grants pro- ' vided for the service, "it is rather to be considered as a magnificent military...sketch than a very accurate map of a country." It was interrupted by the breaking out, in 1755, of another of our then • intermittent wars with France... | |
 | Thomas Pilkington White - 1886 - 222 pages
...inferiority of the instruments used, and the inadequacy of the annual grants provided for the service, "it is rather to be considered as a magnificent military...sketch than a very accurate map of a country." It was interrupted by the breaking out, in 1755, of another of our then intermittent wars with France... | |
 | Whitworth Porter - 1889 - 598 pages
...to the inferiority of the instruments available and the inadequacy of the money grants, saying — " It is rather to be considered as a magnificent military sketch than a very accurate map of a country." The war with France caused the work to be interrupted in 1755, and it was not resumed for a period... | |
 | Whitworth Porter - 1889 - 612 pages
...of the instruments available and the inadequacy of the money grants, saying— " It is rather to bo considered as a magnificent military sketch than a very accurate map of a country." Early in October, 1783, Comte d'Adhemar, the French Am-bassador at the Court of St. James, forwarded... | |
 | Daniel R. Headrick - 2000 - 246 pages
...Scotland, drawn by army surveyor William Roy after the Battle of Culloden of 1746, was, in his own words, "rather to be considered as a magnificent military sketch, than a very accurate map of the country." 17 The maps of Bihar and Bengal in India drawn by Major James Rennell in the 1770s and... | |
 | Charles W. J. Withers - 2001 - 338 pages
...foundation of the Ordnance Survey. In these terms, the 'Roy Map' was, for its originator, 'rather ... a magnificent military sketch, than a very accurate map of a country'. For modern scholars, it represents 'one of the most intriguing and at the same time infuriating documents... | |
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... having been carried out with instruments of the common, or even inferior kind, and the sum allowed for it being inadequate to the execution of so great a design in the best manner, it is rather to be considered as a magnificent military sketch, than... 
