'The Ganges above the Delta. Wood's Survey, 1800. Hurdwar to Allahabad. In 7 parts.' - India Office map catalogue
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Seven-part map depicting the 450-mile route along the River Ganges in northern India from Hurdwar south-eastwards to Allahabad. Portrays hydrology, sands, vegetation and cultivation, settlements, some individual buildings, ghauts and place names. Detail is limited to within approximately 2 miles...
'The Burrampooter River from Kolliabar to the Confluence of the Booree Lewit River. Surveyed in the Months of Dec[embe]r. 1793 & Jan[uar]y. 1794. By Ensign Thomas Wood of the Bengal Engineers'.
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Forms the fourth 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. This sheet depi...
‘Plan of Ras-ul-Girreff shewing the junction with the proposed line of works across the Isthmus with the Tunnel and projected Scarping and ultimate Batteries on the hill’ and ‘Plan of Gibul Hudeed and the end of the Spur from Durub-ul-Hosh shewing the junction with the projected line of works across the Isthmus with the ultimate Defences on Gibul Hudeed and the Pier’
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Distinctive Features: Compiled and signed by a Special Committee on the Aden Defences formed of Engineers William Jacob and C.W. Grant, Bombay 11th September 1843. Relief shown by shading. Shows proposed road and tunnel connecting the two portions of lines with a section through the tunnel....
‘Plans and Sections of the several redoubts and connecting rampart and ditch forming the proposed new line of works across the Isthmus of Aden’
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Distinctive Features: Compiled and signed by a Special Committee on the Aden Defences formed of Engineers William Jacob and C.W. Grant, Bombay 11th September 1843. Contains five plans lettered for reference with corresponding sections and measurements reported. Inscriptions: Bottom right: ...
'Taylor's Maps of the Following Tea Districts - Darjeeling, Terai, Jalpaiguri and Dooars, Darrang, Golaghat, Jorhat, Nowgong, Sibsagar, Lakhimpur, Dibrugarh, Cachar, Sylhet with Complete Index to all Tea Gardens'. Published by Thacker, Spink and Company
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Contains 11 plates of maps, at a scale of either 4 miles or 8 miles to 1 inch, showing tea gardens, roads, rivers, railway and steamer stations, lists of tea gardens with agents' details, and an index.
'Channel Creek, 1770 and 1788. Signed James Caldwell, Lieut. of Engineers' - India Office map catalogue.
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The map bears the note 'A Copy of Channel Creek [a distributary of the Hooghly River] from George’s Point to the Sea, taken from Mr. Lacam’s Survey Plan [dated 1770]. Shewing how far it differs from what the Channel is at present, in as much as the Soundings and judgment of the Gentlemen of the ...
'A new Map of the Ancient Division of the Deckan Illustrative of the History of the Hindu Dynasties with Discriptions of the Principal Places is respectfully dedicated To The Hon[oura]ble Sir Charles Grey Kt. By C.V. Ramaswamy. 1827.'
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Note spelling 'Discription' [sic] in title. Covers India south of Calcutta. Portrays hydrology, relief by hachures, settlements, place names, temples, pagodas, diamond mines, gold coins, copper coins and administrative boundaries. 'Printed at the Asiatic Lithographic Press. Calcutta'. The ori...
'The Burrampooter River from the Booree Lewit to the Jahzee River. Surveyed in the Month of January 1794. By Ens[ig]n. Thomas Wood of the Bengal Eng[inee]rs.'
Scope & Content:
Forms the fifth 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. This sheet depic...