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92
quisling
Friel, 1999, p. 118.

93
an eviction of sorts
Friel, 1981, p. 52.

94
his own wilful mistranslations
See Friel, Andrews and Barry; and Friel, 1983.

95
imperative duty
O’Curry, p. 3.

96
collective folly and stupid intellect
Eugene O’Curry to John O’Donovan, in O’Donovan, 2003, I, p. 8.

97
the first peripatetic university
Green, p. 244.

98
empirical truth
Friel, 1989, p. 66.

99
a heroic literature
Friel, 1989, p. 67.

100
the tiny bruises
Friel, 1983, p. 118.

101
inaccurate history
See Connolly, Sean, 1993; Friel, Andrews and Barry; and Murray.

102
was offered pieties
Friel, 1983, p. 107.

103
a monument for future
Cited in Andrews, J.H., 2006, p. 88.

104
our report went to give
Cited in Andrews, J.H., 2006, p. 74.

105
You recollect the cry of haste
Thomas Colby to Charles Pasley, BL, Add. MS 41964, f. 68, 7 January 1831.

106
Genius is essentially sympathetic
William Rowan Hamilton, cited in Graves, II, p. 152.

107
social feelings
William Rowan Hamilton, cited in Graves, II, p. 152.

108
a map is in its nature
Colby and Larcom, p. 7.

109
physical features of the ground
Colby and Larcom, p. 9.

110
aspect, climate, and geological structure
Colby and Larcom, p. 9.

111
a full face portrait
Thomas Aiskew Larcom, loose notes, Larcom Papers, NLI, MS 7790, 2 July 1861.

112
some historians have done so
See Carroll, especially pp. 1–10, 83–4, 96, 100–12; Ó Cadhla; Kiberd, p. 614. Gillian Doherty provides a very different
interpretation
of the Ordnance Survey’s work.

113
political anatomist
Petty, 1769, p. 288.

114
in the evening Dublin Evening Mail
, 19 August 1835, cited in Andrews, J.H., 2006, pp. 148–9.

115
manifestly wrong
John O’Donovan to Thomas Aiskew Larcom, 4 April 1834, in O’Donovan, 2001a, pp. 26–7.

116
the officers of the Royal Engineers
John O’Donovan to Thomas Aiskew Larcom, 4 April 1834, in O’Donovan, 2001a, pp. 26–7.

117
if such descriptions and remarks
John O’Donovan to Thomas Aiskew Larcom, 4 April 1834, in O’Donovan, 2001a, pp. 26–7.

118
somewhat of a universalist
William Rowan Hamilton to Graves, 4 May 1842, cited in Graves, II, p. 376.

119
study of science, polite literature
Ó Raifeartaigh, p. 13.

120
all the objects of rational inquiry
Burrowes, p. xv.

121
two distinct cultures
See Patten.

122
revert immediately
Board of Ordnance to Thomas Colby, NA, WO 44/703, 1 July 1840.

123
bigotry and politics
‘A Protestant Conservative’ to Henry Goulburn, NLI, MS 7553, 2 May 1842.

124
They have actually
‘A Protestant Conservative’ to Henry Goulburn, NLI, MS 7553, 2 May 1842.

125
stimulating national sentiment
Ryan, p. 167.

126
looked over the whole atlas
Colby to Elizabeth Colby, 9 May 1833, in Close, 1969, p. 92. Accounts of the Ordnance Survey’s Irish maps can be found in Andrews, J.H., 2006; and Ordnance Survey of Ireland.

127
he ought to have been
Cited in Close, 1969, p. 92.

128
No one who has seen
L[each], 1879, p. 194.

129
common workmen
Kohl, pp. 288–9.

130
far more immediately popular
For details about the sales of the Ordnance Survey’s Irish maps, see Andrews, J.H., 2006, p. 138.

131
the principal gentlemen
Cited in Andrews, J.H., 2006, 11: p. 139.

1
from several windows
See ‘The Tower of London – Awful Conflagration’,
Derby Mercury
, 5704, 3 November 1841;
Morning Chronicle
, 31 October 1841.

2
the reflection on the surrounding houses
‘Great Fire in the Tower of London’,
Morning Chronicle
, 22450, 1 November 1840.

3
so intense, that it was
‘The Tower of London – Awful Conflagration’,
Derby Mercury
, 5704, 3 November 1841.

4
By October 1841
For details about the Ordnance Survey’s progress between 1835 and 1870, see Oliver, 1985. For its progress between 1841 and 1846, see Parsons, ‘Changing Needs’, 1980.

5
early in the afternoon
From an undated newspaper cutting in the possession of H.C. Baker, copy in Ordnance Survey Library, Southampton. Cited in Parsons, ‘Changing Needs’, p. 111.

6
not a person to hold a long parley with
From an undated newspaper cutting in the possession of H.C. Baker, copy in Ordnance Survey Library, Southampton. Cited in Parsons, ‘Changing Needs’, p. 111.

7
everything at first was confusion
From an undated newspaper cutting in the
possession
of H.C. Baker, copy in Ordnance Survey Library, Southampton. Cited in Parsons, ‘Changing Needs’, p. 111.

8
a large load of furniture
From an undated newspaper cutting in the possession of H.C. Baker, copy in Ordnance Survey Library, Southampton. Cited in Parsons, ‘Changing Needs’, p. 111.

9
carpenters, bricklayers
From an undated newspaper cutting in the possession of H.C. Baker, copy in Ordnance Survey Library, Southampton. Cited in Parsons, ‘Changing Needs’, p. 111.

10
at home, the steady calm reasoner
Cited in Portlock, p. 311.

11
datum
See Close, 1969, pp. 55, 140

12
shortly to be recalculated
Cited in Parsons, ‘Changing Needs’, p. 123.

13
unguided, hard-worked
Thomas Carlyle to Jane Welsh Carlyle, 16 August 1850, in Carlyle, XXV, pp. 156–8.

14
In 1834 the Poor Law Commission
For accounts of the history of the Poor Law Commission, see Chadwick.

15
In the mid 1830s
Parsons, ‘Changing Needs’, p. 114.

16
The Tithe Communication Act
Parsons, ‘Changing Needs’, p. 113.

17
in April 1840 Correspondence respecting the Scale for the Ordnance Survey
, Parliamentary Papers 1854, XLI, p. 1; cited in Parsons, ‘Changing Needs’, p. 109.

18
In October 1840 Correspondence respecting the Scale for the Ordnance Survey
, Parliamentary Papers 1854, XLI, p. 1; cited in Parsons, ‘Changing Needs’, 1980, p. 109.

19
In February 1841
See Parsons, ‘Changing Needs’, pp. 110–11.

20
every one seemed to have a mania
MacLehose, p. 277.

21
the railway companies became a rival
Parsons, ‘Changing Needs’, p. 113.

22
Colby soon transferred his perfectionist energies
Baigent, ‘Colby, Thomas’.

23
over 28,000 sheets
Parsons, ‘Changing Needs’, p. 116.

24
By 1846
Parsons, ‘Changing Needs’, p. 116 (see pp. 115–17 for these cited figures).

25
the officer William Yolland
See Vetch, ‘Yolland, William’.

26
will show most distinctly that neither
Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee on Army and Ordnance Expenditure, Parliamentary Papers 1849 (499) IX, p. 456; cited in Parsons, ‘Superintendency’, p. 119.

27
In November 1847
For details of the Metropolitan Sanitary Commission’s contact with the Ordnance Survey, see Parsons, ‘Superintendency’, pp. 119–20.

28
the new brooms Daily News
, 509, p. 1, 14 January 1848.

29
a company of Royal Sappers and Miners Daily News
, 607, 9 May 1848.

30
a surveyor called James Steel
Parsons, ‘Superintendency’, p. 120.

31
like the booming of a piece of Ordnance
Connolly, T.W.J., II, pp. 77–82.

32
Scales Dispute
Parsons, ‘Superintendency’, p. 123. For discussions of the ‘Scales Dispute’, see Oliver, 1985; Oliver, 1991; and Parsons, ‘Superintendency’.

33
with little or scarcely any warning
Portlock, p. 313.

34
An obituary of Thomas Colby
See Anon, 1853.

35
as really the great work
Anon, 1853, p. 133.

36
into harmonious action
Anon, 1853, p. 134.

37
would alone suffice
Anon, 1853, p. 134.

38
was not only fully aware
Anon, 1853, p. 134.

39
his life was a course
Anon, 1853, p. 137.

40
I am charged with every species
Hibbert, 1961, pp. 289–90.

41
James launched himself
For James’s role in the Scales Dispute, see Parsons, ‘Scales Dispute’.

42
On 17 September 1862
‘Surveyor’, ‘The Old Ordnance Survey of England’ (Letters to the Editor),
The Times
, 24353, p. 6, 17 September 1862.

43
the Ordnance Survey of England
‘Surveyor’, ‘The Old Ordnance Survey of England’ (Letters to the Editor),
The Times
, 24353, p. 6, 17 September 1862.

44
on receiving
‘Surveyor’, ‘The Old Ordnance Survey of England’ (Letters to the Editor),
The Times
, 24353, p. 6, 17 September 1862.

45
no one is more conscious
Henry James, ‘The Ordnance Survey of England’ (Letters to the Editor),
The Times
, 24357, p. 7, 22 September 1862.

46
half a loaf
Henry James, ‘The Ordnance Survey of England’ (Letters to the Editor),
The Times
, 24357, p. 7, 22 September 1862.

47
give us the means
Henry James, ‘The Ordnance Survey of England’ (Letters to the Editor),
The Times
, 24357, p. 7, 22 September 1862.

48
A Government’s first and indispensable duty
Arnold, pp. 491–2.

49
this year I shall be able
Henry James, ‘The Ordnance Survey of England’ (Letters to the Editor),
The Times
, 24357, p. 7, 22 September 1862.

50
Between 1864 and 1869
For details regarding the Ordnance Survey’s adventures in the Middle East, see Phillips; Wilson and James; Wilson and Palmer.

51
to improve the sanitary state
Wilson and James, Preface, p. i.

52
The city is at present
Wilson and James, ‘Water Supply’.

53
Of the drainage of the city
Wilson and James, ‘Water Supply’.

54
proceed with caution
Cited in Phillips, p. 155.

55
the rugged territory of Highland Scotland
I am indebted to Yolande Hodson for this fascinating information.

56
in some of the smaller cisterns
Wilson and James, ‘III: Haram-es-Sherif’.

57
It is no easy matter
Wilson and James, ‘III: Haram-es-Sherif’.

58
the geological structure
Wilson and James, Preface, p. iii.

59
to enable Serj. McDonald
Wilson and James, Preface, p. iii.

60
when we come to examine
Wilson and James, ‘Ancient Supply’.

61
the name now commonly
Wilson and James, ‘III: Haram-es-Sherif’.

62
that there is a great need
Revd C. Williams, Introduction, in Wilson and Palmer.

63
agents for the sale of Ordnance maps The Times
, 9982, 2 November 1816.

64
the trigonometrical survey of England
‘The Working Man Candidate’,
Northern Echo
, 9, 11 January 1870.

65
railway system itself
‘The Working Man Candidate’,
Northern Echo
, 9, 11 January 1870.

66
the Ordnance Survey is a work
Cited in Mumford, 1980, p. 159.

67
within the reach of all
‘The Ordnance Survey of England and Wales’,
Daily News
, 808, 28 December 1848.

68
the maps fit together
‘The Ordnance Survey of England and Wales’,
Daily News
, 808, 28 December 1848.

69
stand an hour at a time
‘Among the Luxuries of the Last Generation’,
The Times
, 24357, p. 6, 22 September 1862.