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IOR/X/519/1-5
- Record Id:
- 040-003457633
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-002238108
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100083108530.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/X/519/1-5
- Title:
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'A General Map of the River Baramputrey, From its Conflux with the Issamuty near Dacca, towards Assam: Carefully reduced from the Original Surveys to a Scale proper for common Use; By J. Rennell Surveyor.
- Scope & Content:
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A 5-sheet series depicting an approximately 325-mile length of the River Baramputrey in north-eastern India from Commerputa to its confluence with the Issamuty River. Portrays hydrology including sands, pictorial relief and hachures, vegetation and cultivation, settlements, place names and administrative boundaries, and includes topographical notes. The maps have been compiled from a series of original surveys at 2 inches to the mile, of which only a single example is held and filed at IOR/X/517.
Five sheets as follows (India Office map catalogue):
X/519/1 Part I. Containing from the Issamuty to the head of the Luckya River, in distance 78 statute miles. 1765.
X/519/2 Part II. Containing from the head of the Luckya River to Coustya, in distance 53 statute miles. 1765.
X/519/3 No. 3. Containing from Baganbarry to Chilmary, in distance 69 miles. Surveyed in October and November, 1765.
X/519/4 No. 4. Containing from Chilmary to Rangamatty Chokey, in distance 62 miles; with the course of the Dherla River from its mouth to Curygoing, the Teesta Creek to Olyapour, and the Sunecoas to Rangamatty. Surveyed in November, 1765.
X/519/5 No.5 and last. Containing from Rangamatty Chokey to Commerput (the eastern limit of Bengall towards the river), in distance 62 miles; together with the Provinces of Bisnee, and the courses of several rivers through that country; showing the limits of Bengall towards Assam and Boutan. Surveyed in November and December, 1765.
'Also reproduc[tion] (2 copies [?] above[)]' - annotated note in India Office map catalogue
- Collection Area:
- Map Collections
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002238107
036-002238108
040-003457633 - Is part of:
- IOR/X : India Office reference collection of maps
IOR/X/1-4999 : Maps described in the 1878 published catalogue
IOR/X/519/1-5 : 'A General Map of the River Baramputrey, From its Conflux with the Issamuty near Dacca, towards Assam: Carefully reduced from… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002238107[0001]/036-002238108[0049]/040-003457633
- 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 1:126,720
- Scale Designator:
- Horizontal
- Coordinates (Decimal):
- 89.5000,23.5000,91.000,26.5000
- Coordinates (Degree):
- E 89°30’0”-E 91°0’0”/N 26°30’0”-N 23°30’0”
- Orientation:
- Various
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Manuscript: ink and watercolour on paper; 54 x 76cm and 54 x 74cm
- Former External References:
- A XIII 3
O X 2 and O X 2 (3) to (7)
R 1917 - Material Type:
- Maps and Plans
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Rennell, James, cartographer, 1742-1830
- Places:
- Commerputa, Bengal, India
India, Asia
Issamuty River, 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