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THE Indian Survey Department has just issued the second edition of an elaborate coloured map of India in six sheets, fully corrected up to 1888. The scale is 32 miles to the inch, and the details are most minute. British territory is clearly marked as well as dependent and subordinate native States, and independent countries and foreign possessions. Main and minor roads too are clearly noted, and railways open and in progress are indicated, while the position of lighthouses, passes, forts, and canals, is shown in a most precise manner; another feature is that the altitudes above sea-level of the chief stations throughout India are given. The map was first issued under the direction of Lieut.-General J. T. Walker, C.B., R.E., and is now reissued under instructions from Colonel H. R. Thuillier, R.E.
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Geographical Notes. Nature 40, 483 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040483a0
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