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The sheets show hydrology, relief, communications, and numbered settlements. Place-names in Wade-Giles romanisation have been selectively added in pencil.
The lists provide a key, in non-standard romanisation, to the numbered settlements on the maps. Characters have been added to most of the names, and correct Wade-Giles romanisation has been added to some of these.
'Road Survey from Shun-te Fu [順德府] Railway Station to Ho-shun Hsien [和順縣], with Plan. Surveyed by Naik Vishnu Gaode, 117th Mahrattas'
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The map (sheets 1, 2, & 3) shows a route from Shunteh, Chihli (直隸) to Hoshun, Shansi (山西) at a scale of 1:42,240, indicating hydrology, numbered settlements and local relief. The map is drawn in 2 sections on each sheet. The scale given on the sheets (1 inch to 1 mile) is incorrect.The plan (...