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Record of telephone conversation with 'Nyasa. Rails Ltd - 19.11.34.' regarding construction progress on the railway line. Verso is part of a blank survey form. On transfer this folio was attached to the map now filed at WOMAT/AFR/BCA/44/1.
'Plane Table Sheets No 1, to 6.' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:
Shows an area along the Sclater Road in southern East Africa Protectorate from Mbinzau to Mumia's Fort, indicating hydrology and relief with form lines, and with descriptions of vegetation and topography. Main stations of triangulation and intersection points are marked
'Plane Table Sheets - 2 sheets' - War Office ledger
Scope & Content:
Shows an area stretching from the south-east to the north-west of the Aberdare Range in southern central East Africa Protectorate, recording angles of observation, and with some indication of relief
'Mombasa, Victoria Lake Railway'. 'Surveyed in 1892 by Captain J.R.L. Macdonald R.E. Captain J.W. Pringle R.E. Lieut. P.G.Twining R.E. Lieut. H.H. Austin R.E. Sergt. F.H. Thomas M.W.D. India'. 'Published on behalf of the War Office by Edward Stanford'. 'Photozincographed at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1893. Reprinted in 1896.'
Scope & Content:
Shows projected railway routes in East Africa between Mombasa and Kampala, indicating vegetation, relief with contours, tribal regions, hydrology, routes surveyed and locations of camps, with descriptions of topography. Manuscript additions highlight identified points
