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

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