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'Supplementary Sketches By Captain. E.N. Erskine 1935 to Accompany his Maps of 'Air Route Kurmuk - Addis Ababa & Gore Landing Ground'
Scope & Content:
Lithograph depicting unscaled relief profiles looking eastwards and westwards from Gore. Portrays relief outlines with bearings and place names. The sheet bears the note 'Reproduced by the Sudan Survey Dept Khartoum, March, 1936 from a sketch supplied by the author. (Topo. No. S.532-36).'
Portrays hydrology, relief by form lines, roads and tracks, proposed roads, settlements, place names and engineering structures, and includes engineering notes. Detail extends approximately 1 mile from the road.
Relief profile of proposed road running approximately 6o miles westwards from Baro Cala to Mattoh. Portrays elevations, place names and the location of proposed engineering structures. Horizontal scale 1:63,360.
'Plan of Various Traverses Made in Western Abyssinia. Surveyed by Mr Diespecker in 1932.'
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Tracing depicting compass traverses by Mr Diespecker of Gellatly, Hankey and Co Ltd on behalf of the Ethiopian Motor Transport Co Ltd. Corrects and extends ABY/57/1. Portrays hydrology, relief by form lines, hachures rock drawings and spot heights, roads and paths, settlements and place names, ...
Two tables of altitudes on the main road from Addis Ababa to Gore, together with a covering letter. Carbon copy of an original sent from the British Consulate, Gore to the Sudan Survey Department.
Reproductions of 6 original sheets covering Lake Tana (except the centre) and the surrounding land area to approximately 2 miles from the shore. Portrays hydrology, relief by contours and spot heights, roads, churches and place names.
Graphic index portraying the map sheets at ABY/60/1, although there are some minor inconsistencies in sheet limits. Portrays hydrology, roads, churches, place names and sheetlines, and includes tables of lake extent for selected lake surface elevations.
Numbered list of churches cross-referenced to the map sheets at ABY/60/1 and ABY/60/2. Includes the elevation of each church together with details of its structural condition, internal decoration and accessibility at times of high lake levels. The title page bears the statements 'Appendix II' a...
Plotted on to lithographed base map Geographic Section, General Staff, No. 2871, Sheet North C.36 37/B.36 37 titled 'Abyssinia', 2nd Edition, 1931 (a copy is filed at Maps MOD GSGS 2871). Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights and gradient tints, railways, roads and tracks, telegraph lines, ...
