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IOR/X/518
- Record Id:
- 040-003457631
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-002238108
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100083104207.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/X/518
- Title:
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'An Exact Survey of the Rivers Megna & Baramputrey; From its Conflux with the Issamuty towards Assam. By James Rennell, Surveyor. No. 1, containing from the Issamuty to Nauldee Point'. Compilation material.
- Scope & Content:
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Depicts an approximately 20-mile length of the River Baramputrey in north-eastern India. Portrays hydrology including sands and bank topography, vegetation and cultivation, settlements, harbours and place names, and includes topographical notes. This map has been used in the compilation of IOR/X/517.
- Collection Area:
- Map Collections
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002238107
036-002238108
040-003457631 - Is part of:
- IOR/X : India Office reference collection of maps
IOR/X/1-4999 : Maps described in the 1878 published catalogue
IOR/X/518 : 'An Exact Survey of the Rivers Megna & Baramputrey; From its Conflux with the Issamuty towards Assam. By James Rennell,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002238107[0001]/036-002238108[0048]/040-003457631
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 map sheet
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1765
- End Date:
- 1765
- Date Range:
- 1765
- Era:
- CE
- Scale:
- Scale 1:31,680
- Scale Designator:
- Horizontal
- Coordinates (Decimal):
- 90.6667,23.5000,91.0000,23.8833
- Coordinates (Degree):
- E 90°40’0”-E 91°0’0”/N 23°53’0”-N 23°30’0”
- Orientation:
- North-west
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Manuscript: ink and pencil on paper; 52 x 96cm
- Former External References:
- A XIII 2
O X 2 and O X 2 (1) - Material Type:
- Maps and Plans
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Rennell, James, cartographer, 1742-1830
- Places:
- India, Asia
Issamuty River, Bengal, India
Megna River, Bengal, India
Nauldee, Bengal, India
River Baramputrey, 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) p.117 and filed at Maps 212.a.5.
- F.C. Hirst, The Surveys of Bengal by Major James Rennell, F.R.S. 1764-1777 (Calcutta: The Bengal Secretariat Book Depôt, 1917) and filed at Maps C 22.bb.2.
James Rennell's diary for this expedition can be found at:
- T.H.D. La Touche (Ed.), 'The Journals of Major James Rennell', Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 3(1910), pp144-248 and map thereafter
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- IOR/X/517