ERRATUM.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.
15th November.
Sin—By an accident I have only today seen the Spectator of lust Saturday, in which you do me the honour to insert my remarks upon a letter signed J. S. H. I perceive an erratum, which I shall be obliged to you to rectify ; though, from the general accuracy with which your paper is printed, I presume it to be an error of the MS., not of the press.
The sentence beginning—" I say nothing of his calculation" of the speed of the Scotch Central Railway, which if it can only perform seventy-five miles in the time required for forty miles of posting," &c.—should run—" can only perform seventy-five miles in one hour less than the time required for forty miles of posting," &c.
The correction would, no doubt, suggest itself to a reader of ordinary in- telligence, since the extract from the letter of J. S. H., which immediately pre- cedes, thus states the relative speed of the rail and the post; but as there are readers of all degrees of intelligence, it is better to reestablish the true reading.
R. S.
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