on my part to enter into personal explanations with be done this year. I would have reccommended the from a correspondence with the superintending engineer, regret these bickerings, they will not in the slightest I must again assure you that however personally^ I may interference of mine would only serve to widen the that gentleman. You will, I think, see that there is an supplies. Distress has been the consequence, and it is who have no kind feelings towards me, to say whether When I have the misfortune to differ in opinion with unfriendly disposition towards me, in the minds of the intercourse with the low-country, and interfered with our who are most closely associated by Major Kelso, and intended, I am afraid, to throw the blame upon me. But I shall studiously avoid every occasion of difference. the military authorities, I must state my reasons, but degree be permitted to interfere with my public conduct. 104 APPENDIX. The season is so much advanced, that I fear little can which, to prevent misapprehension, I am obliged to for- to the very tops of the passes has suspended our usual APPENDIX. 105 breach. I might with safety appeal to those gentlemen authorities who are employed in superintending the works employment of all establishments upon two of the bunga- ward to the Government. The prevalence of cholera up this would not have been the consequence of any attempt