14 Rough Plan Of The Battle Of Puniar Fought With The Mahratta Forces On The 29th December 1843 By The Left Wing Of The Army Of Gwallior Under The Command Of Majore General Grey, C.B.
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Scale of 2 inches to 1 Mile. Copied from the Plan given by Captn. George Reid, Depy. Asstt. Quarter Master General to Major General Grey, C.B. Manuscript.
'A Plan of the Outlet of the River Hugly from Culpee downward, as it was Survey'[e]d in the year 1770 by John Ritchie, Surv'[eyor].'
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Covers the Hugly River in north-east India from Culpee approximately 40 miles southwards to the Bay of Bengal. Portrays hydrology including sands and soundings, settlements, significant landmark features and place names, and includes topographical notes. Detail does not extend beyond that visibl...
‘Section on Point N. Roadway following a natural pathway on the Outer Side of Munsooree Range at a place called Shaib as marked N. in the Plan’
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Distinctive Features: Compiled and signed by a Special Committee on the Aden Defences formed of Engineers Major Artillery William Jacob and Lieutenant-Colonel C.W. Grant, Bombay 11th September 1843. Produced to accompany the ‘Plan shewing the Old Line of Field Works across the Isthmus of Aden ...
‘Trigonometrical plan of Core Shedeitch on the Arabian side of the Persian Gulf. By Lieutenants J. M. Guy and G. B. Brucks, H. C. Marine. Drawn by Lieut. M. Houghton’
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Distinctive Features: Depths shown by soundings. Hand drawn nautical chart of the shores of the Persian Gulf compiled from the survey carried out by the Bombay Marine’s officers in 1823 showing Al Khor in Qatar. Includes a note on water levels and soundings with latitude and longitude of ‘R...
'The Burrampooter River from the Jahzee to the D'hekowe. Likewise the March of the Troops to Rungpore with a Route thence to Ghurgong. Surveyed in the Months of April & May 1794. By Ens[ig]n. Thomas Wood of the Bengal Eng[inee]rs.'
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Forms the sixth of a six-sheet map series of the Burrampooter River in north-eastern India from Noghurbera upstream to the entry point of the D'hekowe River 240 miles east-northeastwards. Surveyed by Ensign Thomas Wood between 1792 and 1794, and filed at IOR/X/521 to IOR/X/526. [Note: this sheet...
‘Map of the Countries lying between the Euphrates and Indus on the East and West, and the Oxus and Terek and Indian Ocean on the North and South. By John Macdonald Kinneir’
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Imprint: Calcutta, Lithographed by Order of the Supreme Government of India at the Surveyor General’s Office. Distinctive Features: Title continues: ‘Inscribed to Brigadier General Sir John Malcolm Knight of the Royal Persian Order of the Lion and Sun’. Below title Aaron Arrowsmith’s impri...
Covers a 200-mile length of the Battnah [Al Batinah, Oman] coast west of Muscat on the Gulf of Oman. Includes a hinterland of approximately five miles. Portrays hydrology, including depths by soundings, prominent relief by hachures, vegetation, settlements, forts and place names, and includes t...
‘Chart of the coast of Persia from Kooe Mubarrack to Kurchee. Surveyed by Commander G.B. Brucks and Lieut. S.B. Haines H.C. Marine 1829’
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Imprint: Published by James Horsburgh Hydrographer to the Hon. E.I. Compy. Augt. 1st 1832. Additions 1857. Febr. 1863. Additions & Corrections at the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, Oct. 1862. Engraved by Rd. Bateman 85 Long Acre. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Depths s...
'The Shat Al Arab from the Gurma‘t ‘Ali toBusra'. Tracing
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Portrays a seven-mile length of the Shat Al Arab[Shatt al Arab] in southern Mesopotamia [Iraq] from Busra [Basra, Iraq]northwards to Gurma‘t ‘Ali [Garmat Ali, Iraq]. Depicts hydrology, includingsoundings, sand, marsh and canals, relief by hachures, vegetation, cultivation,roads, settlements, tow...
'Trigonometrical Survey of the Rivers Karun and Dizful and the Aub-i-Gargar Canal in the Month of April 1842'
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Portrays the River Karun in north-western Persia [Iran] from approximately twelve miles north of Shuster [Shushtar] downstream approximately eighty miles to Ahwaz [Ahvaz]; and the River Dizful [Dez] from approximately thirty miles south of Dezful downstream approximately forty miles to its confl...
