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forcible, I weighted them heavily with original
i&cts. The result has been that eiiice the fall

'fleok Te^ie and the amieiatiou of MerF, maoj news*
paper-writers and authors have displayed their consi-
dersite appreciation by appropriating both opinions and
facts, without tlie slightest acknowledgment, and have
passed them off as their own. Two flagrant instances, in
particular, rankle in my memory. In September, 1883, the
Edinburgh Review published on article on " Bussian Kail*
ways in Asia," containing several pages of matter taken
almost en Uoc from my " Eossians at Morv and Herat,"
without the slightest indieatioti of the Eource ; and on the
25th January this year, a Mr. Robert Ciist delivered a
lecture at the " Royal United Service Institution " on the
" Russians on the Caspian and Black Seas," embodying a
large amount of information from the same source, as
well OS from my pamphlet " The Russian Railway to
India," in wbich he left, it to his audience to infer that
the data about the railway had been collected by him
during his journey to Baku, instead of from my writings.
