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map transmitted to England without my
knowledge
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I further submit that the important
bearing on the argument of my actual
ignorance) of the intentions of the Military is not impaired by the General insisting that I did, might have, or ought to have known or
surely I am a better judge than he of my own perceptions
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I may be to blame for this, as being unusually dull of apprehension, but not be more inspired to have known then my successor may than myself, and the preferable adopted would therefore appear to have been suited to all capacities. Why should I be called upon to deduce the details and limits of a plan sent home in 1866 from any observations of an Engineer Officer in 1863? or be expected to elaborate an analysis of more recent facts, inferences, and transactions to arrive at a knowledge of the outlines of a map, which might have been shown to me, and the production of which would have been the best evidence of itself?
Surely I am not asking too much, if I therefore request that in future I should see the actual plans, which I am to be acquainted with, whereon they affect Colonial rights, as they must always do when they involve extension of the Cantonments, and also that, if entitled to comment on them, I should see them before transmission to England.
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