Lachung village, with ancient moraines above. Photographer: Paul, Alfred Wallace
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Genre: Landscape Photography Facing p. 29. General view of village: 'Paul took two photographs of the village and moraines with a hroup. I particularly wished to get in the moraines, as Sir Joseph Hooker describes them so fully, and I hoped to send him a photograph to compare with his own pictu...
Yamdo Chu River in the Lachen Valley. Photographer: Macaulay, Colman Patrick Louis
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Genre: Landscape Photography Mounted facing p. 31. View upstream towards waterfall: 'About half a mile further we came to the Yamdo Chu fed entirely by a magnificent waterfall. We timed the fall of the water from the top, and found it to be 6 to 6 and a half seconds. The waterfall came from a d...
Chomiomo (22,290 [feet]) and glacier. Photographer: Paul, Alfred Wallace
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Genre: Landscape Photography Mounted facing p. 37. View showing porters climbing the pass, with glaciers and peaks beyond: 'At Chomiom Chu we got a magnificent view of Chomiomo (22,290), with precipices of solid ice above black cliffs hung with gigantic icicles and a stupendous glacier broken i...
Seistan. Irrigation Report of the Perso-Afghan Arbitration Commission, 1902-1905. Volume II. Statements and Calculations.
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The second volume of reports produced by the Irrigation Officer of the Perso-Afghan Boundary Commission, Seistan [Sīstān], and submitted to the Government of India, Foreign Department. Publication statement: Simla: Government of India Foreign Department, 1906. The commission, under the directio...
'REPORT ON A TOUR IN TURKISH ARABIA AND KURDISTAN APRIL-MAY 1910 BY J. G. LORIMER, ESQ., C.I.E., I.C.S., British Political Resident in Turkish Arabia and His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Baghdad.'
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Tour report written by John Gordon Lorimer from notes taken during his journey from 18 April to 22 May 1910. The report comprises information on topographical matters. The report is divided into sections describing each day's journey, giving start and end destinations, time travelled and topogr...