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IOR/X/396/1-308
- Record Id:
- 040-003453313
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-002238108
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100080246891.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/X/396/1-308
- Title:
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'The Spirit Levels and Trigonometrical Heights of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, combined with Spirit Levels of the Department of Public Works (also Canal, Revenue, and other surveys). Expressed in feet and referred to the datum of the mean sea level of Karachi harbour.' - India Office map catalogue.
- Scope & Content:
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The following note is copied from the India Office catalogue:
'This title [see Title field above] (except the part in parentheses), appears at the head of the Second Editions of sheets 1 and 3 of the series; and as it seems to be well adapted to the general scope of the work, it is adopted here to include the whole. But the First Edition of sheets 1 and 3, also sheets 5, 7, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, bear the following title: “Great Trigonometrical Survey. Levels in the North-West Provinces, compiled from canal, railway, and other surveys, and combined with the operations of the G.T. Survey. Expressed in feet,” &c.
Sheets 23 and 66 have another heading, viz: “Levels in the Punjab, compiled from canal and other surveys and combined,” &c.
Sheet 27 is headed “Levels in the North-West Provinces and Oudh,” &c.
Sheets 28 and 40 are headed “Levels in Oudh,” &c.
The unity of the work under all these different titles is made manifest by an Index Map in the “General Report on the operations of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India during 1872-73,” the heading of which is, “Index to Main Level Lines by the G.T. Survey, for compilation of Charts. “Northern Section. Sheet No. 1” This Index shows that the scope of the work extends from Peshawur to the Nerbudda, and from Karachi to Calcutta. The various titles and the irregular numbering of the sheets, seem to imply that narrower limits were formerly intended. As the consequences are liable to be puzzling and troublesome, this note is inserted to prevent that result, and also the dispersion of the charts as their titles seem to dictate.
No. 1. Parts of Ambala, Suharunpoor, Thunaisur, and Dehra Doon. With letter-press description of Bench Marks and other information, &c. 4 page folio in a cover. 1st and 2nd editions.
No. 3. Parts of Suharunpoor, Moozufurnugur and Thunaisur.
No. 5. Parts of Moozunfurnugur, Meerut and Paneeput.
No. 6. Parts of Meerut, Bijnor, Muzaffarnagar, Moradabad, Kumaun, Garhwal and Tarai.
No. 7. Parts of Meerut, Boolundshuhur, Delhi Paneeput and Rohtuk.
No. 8. Parts of Meerut, Muradabad, Bulandshahr and Rampur.
No. 9. Parts of Allygurh, Dehli, Boolundshuhur and Goorgoan.
No. 10. Parts of Allygurh, Boolundshuhur, Budaon and Muradabad.
No. 11. Parts of Muthra, Allygurh and Goorgaon.
No. 12. Parts of Allygurh, Mynpoorie and Budaon.
No. 13. Parts of Shahjahanpur, Budaun, Etah, Farrukhabad and Hardoi.
No. 14. Parts of Agra and Meethra.
No. 15. Parts of Etah Mynpoorie, Muthra, Etawah and Agra.
No. 16. Parts of Mynpoorie and Furruckabad, &c.
No. 17. Parts of Etawah and Mynpoorie.
No. 18. Parts of Furruckabad, Cawnpoor and Etawah.
No. 19. Parts of Cawnpoor and Oudh.
No. 21. Parts of Cawnpoor, Fatehpur, Unao and Rae Bareli.
No. 23. Parts of Karnal, Delhi, Rohtak, Jind, Patiala and Hissar.
No. 25. Parts of Bareilly, Tarai, Rampur and Moradabad.
No. 26. Parts of Rampur, Bareilly, Budaun and Shahjahanpur.
No. 27. Parts of Shahjahanpur, Kheri, Hardoi and Sitapur.
No. 28. Parts of Sitapur, Bara-Banki, Hardoi, Lucknow and Unao.
No. 39. Parts of Sitapur, Bara Banki, Gonda, Lucknow and Bahraich.
No. 40. Parts of Lucknow, Bara-Banki, Bareli, Unao, Sultanpur, Fyzabad, and Gonda.
No. 41. Parts of Unao, Sultanpur, Rae Bareli and Partabgarh.
No. 42. Parts of Allahabad, Fatehpur, Rae-Bareli and Partabgarh.
No. 45. Parts of Gorakhpur, Basti, Fyzabad, Sultanpur and Gonda.
No. 53. Parts of Ghazipur, Benares, Mirzapur and Shahabad.
No. 59. Parts of Shahabad, Patna and Gya.
No. 66. Parts of Umballa, Karnal, Patiala, Nabha, &c.
No. 67. Parts of Jullundur, Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana, Umballa, Patiala and Nabha.
No. 75. Parts of Jullundur, Ferozepore, Ludhiana, Nabha and Patiala.
No. 81. Parts of Ferozepore, Sirsa, Patiala, Nabha, Montgomery, Bahawalpur and Bickaneer.
No. 82. Parts of Lahore, Montgomery, Sirsa and Ferozepore.
No. 83. Parts of Lahore, Ferozepore and Amritsar.
No. 90. Parts of Dera Ghazi Khan, Muzaffargarh and Bahawalpur State.
No. 216. Parts of Hissar, Ferozepore and Patiala State.
No. 259. Parts of Ludhiana, Karnal and Ferozepore, of Faridkot, Nabha, Patiala, Jind, Maler Kotla and Badhaur States.
No. 261. Parts of Hissar, Patiala and Bikaner States.
No. 308. Parts of Karnal and Patiala State.
Index to Level Charts of the Great Trigonometric Survey [Northern Section], Published and under Compilation:
[Index/1] Third Edition with corrections and additions up to October 1877.
[Index/2] Fourth Edition with corrections and additions up to October 1880.
[Index/3] Another copy [Fourth Edition] with corections additions up to October 1881.'
Sheets portray hydrology, relief by spot heights, bench marks and rock drawings, roads, railways, canals, settlements, place names, administrative boundaries and levelling lines. Thirty-nine sheets include attached folios of up to 18 pages (36 x 26cm) detailing the levelling lines and bench marks contained thereon. All sheets include compilation histories listing surveyors, compilers, cartographers, photographers, zincographers and printers.
The India Office catalogue bears the following manuscript notes:
'NB This is only an early portion of the levelling in India - see Heights Spirit Levelled. Levelling of Precision in Record Branch [under Surveys] for much later work, still in progress. 1924'
'Sheets 6, 8, 9, 11, 13 have been added.'
'Sheets 21, 25, 26, 39, 41, 42, 45, 53, 59, 67, 75, 81-83, 90 since added.'
'216, 259, 261, 308'
- Collection Area:
- Map Collections
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002238107
036-002238108
040-003453313 - Is part of:
- IOR/X : India Office reference collection of maps
IOR/X/1-4999 : Maps described in the 1878 published catalogue
IOR/X/396/1-308 : 'The Spirit Levels and Trigonometrical Heights of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, combined with Spirit Levels of… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002238107[0001]/036-002238108[0020]/040-003453313
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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44 map sheets and 39 folios
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1869
- End Date:
- 1908
- Date Range:
- 1869-1908
- Era:
- CE
- Scale:
- Scales differ
- Scale Designator:
- Horizontal
- Coordinates (Decimal):
- 66.6250,22.0000,90.0000,34.5000
- Coordinates (Degree):
- E 66°37’30”-E 90°0’0”/N 34°30’0”-N 22°0’0”
- Orientation:
- North
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Manuscript: coloured ink and watercolour on paper; 73 x 108cm or smaller
- Former External References:
- B VIII [sheet number]
- Material Type:
- Maps and Plans
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Survey of India, India, 1767-
- Places:
- India, Asia
- Related Material:
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Reference to this item is made in:
- India Office, A Catalogue of Manuscript and Printed Reports, Field Books, Memoirs, Maps, etc., of The Indian Surveys, deposited in The Map Room of the India Office (London: India Office, 1878) pp.92-93 and filed at Maps 212.a.5.
A brief account of the chronology of levelling on the Great Trigonometrical Survey can be found at:
- Clements R. Markham, A Memoir on The India Surveys (London: India Office, 1878) pp.135-36.
A more detailed account of the methodology of levelling for the Great Trigonometrical Survey can be found at:
- J.T. Walker, 'On the Methods of Determining Heights, in the Trigonometrical Survey of India', Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society, 33 (1865), pp.103-114.