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'Projecto de ampliacao da cidade de Lourenco Marques, Decembro '87'. 'Antonio José da Arenjo, Director da obras Publicas de Lourenço Marques.' 'David Pin[heiro?] Desenhada'.'Traced from the Original, Dec: 7. 1889'.
Scope & Content:
A large scale plan showing existing and planned roads, and relief.
'Sketch map of Gorongoza and Cheringoma, Mozambique Company's Territory'. A tracing by Captain Louis Molyneux-Seel and Lieutenant Charles Almeric John Cholmondeley. '29.11.07.' is written outside the bottom neat line.
Scope & Content:
Shows routes and settlements in the drainage basin of the River Pungwe, north and north-west of Beira in Mozambique, with notes on topography
Positions, Azimuths and Lengths of Sides of Captain Whitehouse's Triangulation round the Southern Shores of Lake Victoria. Computed by the Topographical Section of the General Staff, War Office.
Scope & Content:
Comprises a list of survey data and an accompanying triangulation diagram.
'Mfumbiro Region, German Map.' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:
Covers the eastern portion of the Mfumbiro Mountains, including the Mohasi-See and area immediately to the north. Portrays hydrology, relief by contours and spot heights, settlements, international boundaries and place names. Some areas of the map are unsurveyed, although bear brief topographical...
Portrays new and proposed railway developments in northern German East Africa. Base maps are GSGS 3026 sheets Kilimanjaro and Karagwe (A2) produced at the Ordnance Survey Office in 1915 and 1917 respectively. Sheets portray hydrology, relief by spot heights and form lines, forests, roads and tr...
'Serial Numbers of the Work of No. 6 Topo Section Tanganyika Territory'. '6th Topo. Section, R.E. 1915-1917.' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:
Numbered index listing of 'Plane-table Surveys of areas Lindi, Morogoro etc., of towns & camps; route compass surveys; sketches; compilation from various sources; copies of German sketches etc.' - War Office ledger.
'Iringa District. Sketch Map. Survey & Mines Dept. T.T. 23.7.26'.
Scope & Content:
Covers an area extending 50 miles south-west of Iringa along the Malangali road. Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights and form lines, roads and tracks, settlements, place names and triangulation points.
'Plane-table Survey of Area N. & E. & South of Kigoma' - War Office ledger. Signed by C.H.B. Grant, 1926
Scope & Content:
Composite reproductions of six manuscript sheets, constituting two plane-table sheets and one supplementary detail sheet. Covers an area extending 100 miles inland from Kigoma on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika. The ledger indicates that eight manuscript sheets listed in the original ledg...
