And now to answer your <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />questions; I am extremely sorry <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />for the spelling adopted in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the map of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">India</placeName>, which was <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Mr <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0001901 http://d-nb.info/gnd/119408953">Petermann</persName><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">’</supplied>s doing, he had <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the sheets of letterpress sent him <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />as the work proceeded on purpose <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to adopt the same spelling, but<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="36r" /> <fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folNum">3</fw>did not do so after all. For <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />many reasons I should have <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />preferred the classical mode <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of spelling, but unfortunately <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />it is not prevalent, either in <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006686 https://www.geonames.org/1269750">India</placeName> or in <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131">England</placeName> & the Indian <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <sic>Goverment</sic> <corr>Government</corr> </choice> have taken no <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />means of bettering the nomen<g xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" break="no" />clature, either by suggesting a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />code or following a uniform <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />plan themselves.