14 NOVEMBER 1908, Page 13

[To THE EDITOR OP TIM "Sescuroa."] SIR, —May I point out

an error of fact regarding the road from Balaclava to the British camp in your comment ou the

letter of Mr. Martineau in your issue of the 7th inst.? Instead of being easy to make, it was blasted for a consider- able distance through very bard rock. The civil engineer in charge of it was my cousin, Felix Wakefield, brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, of New Zealand, and he always spoke of it as a very arduous piece of work. He gave my father a specimen of the rock, which appeared to be as bard as granite.—I am, Sir, &c.,