COMMENTS IN REPLY.

The article presents some comments of geographical researchers on the research papers submitted by them. Just because settlers prefer to locate farmhouses close to a road does not mean that in doing this they also choose non-central locations with respect to the rest of the farm. Working land on both sides of a road is quite common. Also, the tendency of farmhouses to cluster along a highway can be discerned via machine map reading techniques. Quadrant sizes smaller than the period of the road network would detect these. And such linear clusters would not, of course, be related to the settlement processes that are discussed in "A Location Theory for Rural Settlement," by J.C. Hudson.