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Kathiawar : Parts of Jhalawar (Jhalavad) & Ahmedabad. Season 1872-73.

Resource Type : Map
Year/Date of Publication : 1884
Subject : Topographic Map
Publisher : Dehradun Photo-Zincographed at the G.T.S.Office 1884
Place of Publication : Dehradun
Language : English
Notes/Description : (Sheet No. 10 of Kathiawar - 2nd ed.) Surveyed and mapped under the direction and superintendence of Lieut.- Colonel J.T. Walker, R.E., F.R.S., & c., Superintendent Trigonometrical Surveys (now Lieut.- General, C.B. and Surveyor General), and finally under the superintendence of J.B.N. Hennessey, Esq., M.A. F.RS., & c., Officiating Deputy Surveyor General in, charge Trigonometrical Branch, by Captain H. Trotter, R.E., (now major and C.B.) and captain (now Lieut.- Colonel) Ayrton Pullan, S.C., Deputy Superintendents. ORTHOGRAPHY in accordance with Bombay Government List (Bombay Places and Common Official Words). CONVENTIONAL SIGNS. Trigonometrical Stations & Points respectively Δ & ο or ό. Taluka Boundaries, Metalled roads, Country roads, Foot paths Cultivation, blank. Edge of cultivation , waste, Ran or Salt Waste, Pahlias or In Memoriam stones †. Numerals without an affix indicate Trigonometrical heights in feet above mean sea level; thus 365. Numerals with the affix P. indicate the population of the town or village they are printed near, thus, 472 P ; with affix r they indicate the relative heights in feet of banks to beds of water courses, thus 12 r. G.T. Level Heights to 2 places of decimals, and Railway Heights reduced to G.T.S. datum to one place of decimals, are shewn thus, B.M. 34.44 and 42.3 The latitude are referrible to Kalianpur Observatory, assumed as 24° 7' 11. The Longitudes are referrible to Madras Observatory, taken as 80° 17' 21 to which a correction of - 2' 30'' must be applied to reduce to the most recent value, 80° 14' 51. The Heights are referrible to Dangarwari H.S., deduced from Diu Tidal Observations as 97.97 Ft. Index to Numbers of adjoining sheets.
Pages/Folios : 1
Identifier : MAP_0299
Digitization Sponsor : Government of Maharashtra
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