‘Sheet No. 2 Canal and Communication Map of Mesopotamia’
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The map is an additional sheet intended to accompany the map on the preceding folio (f 53). Although this map bears no key, it uses the same colour-coding and symbols as found on folio 53, as follows: existing canals and river systems, marked with blue lines; new canals, or the extensions to exi...
Reproduction of a black-and-white illustration showing the view from the village of Al Kabar. The illustration, signed by Major J K Tod, shows an expanse of plain surrounded by mountains. Some of the mountain peaks are annotated with transliterated names. Compass bearings run along the top of th...
Reproduction of a map showing the route through the Khureba [Al Khuraybah] Pass, signed by Major A Crawford of the Royal Artillery, and dated 18 August 1903. A dashed line marks the route, with various features indicated and annotated along the route: valley sides, paved roads, walls, springs an...
The map shows a region of eastern Africa around Jibuti [Djibouti] Bay at the southern entrance to the Gulf of Tajura, indicating buildings, hydrology and soundings, with short descriptions of vegetation and tidal conditions, and a brief note on tidal streams and anchorage. The map was compiled '...
‘Nād’ Ali of the Helmand near Burj-i-Ās; showing causeway of tamarisk fascines.’
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A photograph of a group of people standing on a causeway over the Nad Ali channel [Nad-e Ali] of the Helmand River near Burj-i-As [location unknown]. The causeway is made of tamarisk fascines. ‘Engraved and printed at the Offices of the Survey of India, Calcutta [Kolkata] 1910.’ is printed under...
‘The city of the Kak-hās, Koh-i-Khwāja; from the eastern beach.’
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A view of the city of Koh-i-Khwaja [thirty-five kilometres south-west of Zabol] from an eastern beach. Four figures can be seen in the foreground on the left. ‘Engraved and printed at the Offices of the Survey of India, Calcutta [Kolkata] 1910.’ is printed underneath. The photograph was taken ...
A note on survey work in Persia, and survey instruments and equipment.
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This note was compiled by Captain Charles Monk Gibbon (Division of the Chief of the Staff), and relates to survey work in Persia. Gibbon discusses the survey instruments and equipment which should be used, and offers advice on how to better undertake survey work in the area, for example, by appe...
‘Rough Section of Persia from Enselle on Caspian through Kasvin Teheran, Shiraz to Bushire on Persian Gulf’
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Plan marked paper no. 7C, indicating the height above sea level (expressed in feet) of the route taken from Enselle [Bandar-e Anzalī] near Rasht, to Bushire, via Kasvin [Qazvin], Teheran [Tehran] and Shiraz, by Colonel Augustus Le Messurier of the Bombay Engineers, in 1887. The section is drawn ...