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'Ho-nan [河南] & An-hui [安徽] Provinces. Chiang-pei [江北] or North of the Yang-tzu R. [揚子江]' - War Office ledger.Done by Captain F.G. Turner, R.E., Lieutenant Colonel A.W.S. Wingate, Sepoy Hakim Khan, and Sowar Harnam Singh.
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Includes plan of Shin-ts’ai Hsien (新蔡縣) at scale 1:10,560, and plans of Chêng-yang-kuan T’ing (正陽關廳), Lü Chou Fu (廬州府), and Ch’uen-chiao Hsien (全椒縣) at scale 1:15,840.
'An-hui [安徽] and Hu-pei [湖北] Provinces. Chiang-pei [江北] or North of the Yangtzu R. [揚子江]' - War Office ledger.Done by Sepoy Hakim Khan and Sowar Harnam Singh.
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Includes plans of Liu-an Chou (六安州), Ch’ien-shan-hsien (潛山縣), Huang-mei Hsien (黃梅縣), T’ai Hu Hsien (太湖縣), and Huang-chou Fu (黃州府), all at scale 1:15,840.
Field sheets, with a smaller scale reduction and a book of place-names, from a survey of routes in north-east Hupeh (湖北) and south-east Honan (河南) provinces.
Survey from T'uan-Fang [團風] to Tang Hsien [唐縣] via Ma-Ch'eng Hsien [麻城縣], Kuang-shan Hsien [光山縣] and Chiu-li-kuan [九里關], Chang-t'ai kuan [not identified], T'ung-po Hsien [桐柏縣]; from T'ang Hsien to T'ung-po Hsien, via Ts'ao-yang Hsien [棗陽縣]; from T'ung-po Hsien to Hsin-yang Chou [信陽州] via Sui Chou [隨州]; from Hsin-yang Chou to Hsiao-ho-hsi [小河溪] via Ying-shan Hsien [應山縣]. Reduction of Sheet Nos 1 to 8 [CHI/188/1/2]. Surveyed by Harnam Singh.
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Shows settlements, the route followed by the survey, and a small amount of local roads data. The closing error of the survey is indicated at 2 points in red ink
'P[lane] T[able] & P[rismatic] C[ompass] Surveys' - War Office ledger
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Shows hydrology, relief, and settlements. Some sheets include annotations in Arabic script. Minor settlements and stations along the route are numbered. Sheet 9 comprises plans of Suichow (隨州), Tsaoyang (棗陽), Tungpeh (桐柏), Yingshan (應山), and Shiaohotsi (小河溪), all at scale 1:15,840.
The first 71 pages provide numbered lists relating to the sheets at CHI/188/1/2. Names are given in characters and Wade-Giles romanisation. A count of the number of resident families is given for each place. Notes on 11 of the places have been written in a three page section in the un-used part ...