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(ADVERTISEMENT.)
Hodgson's MAP OF WESTMORLAND.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE KENDAL GAZETTE
A Report having been recently circulated, that the Map of
Westmorland, which I am preparing for publication, and for
which I have, during the last year, been engaged in the
Survey of that County, was likely to be abandoned for a
pecuniary compromise, and its further prosecution
relinquished in favour of other persons, I think it
requisite, in consequence of insinuations so unfounded, to
inform the public immediately, that a desertion of
engagement so contemptible, has never been my intention, and
to assure the Subscribers most especially, that a requital
of their liberality and patronage so base, I never
contemplated. To them indeed some apology may be due, for
the inevitable prolonging of its date of publication beyond
what I first anticipated; but I hope for their forbearance
when they reflect (and those who have witnessed it, can
fully appreciate,) the great length of labour which an
individual must necessarily sacrifice in surveying a County,
even so limited as Westmorland, with the minuteness of the
Chain, and when they consider that the accuracy of the
construction of its Plan, ought to be commensurate with the
time and assiduity it has occupied.
I am very respectfully,
T. HODGSON.
This letter is repeated in the Westmorland Gazette 28
June 1823, and appears in the Kendal Chronicle 21 June 1823
where it is dated:-
Appleby, 6th month 19th, 1823.
Notice the interesting expression of a date, used
throughout his correspondence by TH.
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