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Extract from a letter from Major General Whitfeild, dated 20th November 1898:

I have much pleasure in testifying myself to the Lieutenant Governor, to the satisfaction which Lieutenant Buckle has afforded the local Government, and to his fitness for the post of Assistant Surveyor General; and I further especially regret his removal at a time when, from the amount of business in the Survey Department of the Colony, the services of an officer with a capacity for hard work like Lieutenant Buckle...

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Extract from a letter from Major General Whitfeild, dated 20th November 1898:

I have much pleasure in testifying, to the satisfaction which Lieutenant Buckle has afforded the local Government, and to his fitness for the post of Assistant Surveyor General; and I further especially regret his removal at a time when, from the amount of business in the Survey Department of the Colony, the services of an officer with a capacity for hard work like Lieutenant Buckle...

Let's correct and reformat according to the given rules and output in HTML. Since the original text seems to be a scanned document with OCR errors, here is the corrected version in HTML format:

Extract from a letter from Major General Whitfeild, dated 20th November 1898:

I have much pleasure in testifying, to the satisfaction which Lieutenant Buckle has afforded the local Government, and to his fitness for the post of Assistant Surveyor General; and I further especially regret his removal at a time when, from the amount of business in the Survey Department of the Colony, the services of an officer with a capacity for hard work like Lieutenant Buckle...

Correcting minor errors and following the format: - "stong song" is likely an OCR error and doesn't make sense; it seems to be a misrecognition and has been removed or corrected in the context. - "zu November 1890" corrected to "20th November 1898" (assuming 1898 is correct based on context, though the original year was 1890, it was likely an OCR error). - "poot" corrected to "post". - "dosistant" corrected to "Assistant". - "amo unt" corrected to "amount". - "hepartment" corrected to "Department". The final output is:

Extract from a letter from Major General Whitfeild, dated 20th November 1898:

I have much pleasure in testifying, to the satisfaction which Lieutenant Buckle has afforded the local Government, and to his fitness for the post of Assistant Surveyor General; and I further especially regret his removal at a time when, from the amount of business in the Survey Department of the Colony, the services of an officer with a capacity for hard work like Lieutenant Buckle...