Excerpt from Report on the Second Year's Progress of the Survey of the Oil Lands of Japan During the season of' field work the absences from duty were only some thirteen days by Mr. Yamauchi, owing to weak eyes; and five working days by me. It will be seen that (excepting Messrs. Misawa, Adachi and my self) the attendance in Yedo has been nearly six-sevenths of the whole time; comparing favourably with former years, and (i believe) with other offices; but still leaving much to be desired. In addition, the assis tants through the greater part of' the spring season commonly stayed in the otfice about an hour beyond the stated office hours in order to receive a lesson from me in Physics, and, besides, worked much additional time in the evening in writing up their notes of the same. Of the time spent by myself in office I keptarecord (though it can hardly be admitted that the work of a manager can be estimated so strictly by the hour, since often the best of such work is done in moments of apparent idleness), and find on counting up the number of hours while in Yedo and while at office work in the country that there were 101 hours or three weeks and two days, or a daily average of about 40 minutes of' such additional work, to which may be added about four months of extra work done in travelling, according to the rule of five leagues a day during inspection tours (like my long trip), and ten leagues during journeys without inspection by the way (as the trip to Tootoomi was reckoned); making, then, nearly five months of extra labour done within the year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.