Date: 1871
One of the public journals lately stated that the English Govern ment, before undertaking the Survey of Ireland, employed a special Commission to ascertain the accurate orthography of Irish Geographical Names.  Situated as we are in India it is hopeless to expect to be able to use as complete or efficient machinery as the English Government can command.  But this con sideration will perhaps tend to excuse blemishes in a work which the great variety of the dialects, and the vast extent of the country, renders at least ten times more difficult ; and which had to be executed by a single officer during such spare hours as he could devote to it, after his regular Government work.