Plan of 'His Britannic Majesty's Legation, Peking [北京]. From a sketch by Captain R.G. King, R.E., Field Engineer, North China Command.''1st December 1904. Corrected to 24th November 1905'
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Indicates the layout and functions of civil and military buildings.
'Capt. R.M.C. Ruxton's route' through Honan (河南), Shansi (山西), Shensi (陝西) and Kansu (甘肅) Provinces. 'Surveyed by Naik Ismail Khan, 121st Pioneers (Intelligence Branch North China Commd.) under orders of Capt. R.M.C. Ruxton 1st Chinese Regiment.' from 29 July to 25 October 1905.
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Two versions of a map with a booklet listing place-names.The route plotted on the map follows a line from Sinsiang (新鄉) to Hwaiking (懷慶) in northern Honan; thence through Anyi (安邑) and Puchow (蒲州), southern Shansi; across central Shensi through Sian (西安) and Paoki (寶雞); continuing along the cours...
Major places are given in Wade-Giles romanisation; minor places are numbered. A key in margin on each sheet gives extensive name-lists both in Chinese characters and romanisation.Some sheets that are separate in the manuscript version at CHI/180/1/1 have been combined. Includes 2 copies of the In...
The original record of place-names, in Chinese, providing the source for the name-lists added to the blue-print version of the map. There is no title, but the first page has '光緒三十一年六月二十七日由河南衛輝府新鄉縣繪' indicating the date and place where the journey began.
'Pao-chi Hsien [寶雞縣] (on Wei Ho [渭河]) to Ma-pu-ts'un [馬跑泉]' 'Chieh-chou [解州] to Man-yi Hsien (An-yi Hsien) [安邑縣]' ' Wen-hsi Hsien [聞喜縣] to Yen-chang [unidentified].' - War Office ledger
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Maps of three routes in Kansu [甘肅], Shensi [陕西] and Shansi [山西] Provinces. Relief is shown up to one mile either side of the route, also hydrology and settlements. Numbered place-names are given in romanised Chinese.
10 map sections on 5 sheets. Sheets 1 - 4: A route in west Shensi [陕西] and Kansu [甘肅], from Pau-chi Hsien [寶雞縣] to Ma-pu-ts'un [馬跑泉]. Sh. 5: 'Route from Wen-Hsi-Hsien [聞喜縣] to Yen-Chang [unidentified]' and, 'Route from Chieh-Chou [解州] to Nan-Yi-Hsien [安邑縣]', both in southern Shansi [山西]. Shows lo...