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reaching China, and these would be the Lukiang or Salween, and the 

 Lan Ts'angkiang or Mekong. Little doubt therefore remains that the 

 Lukiang is identical with the Salween, though there is so far no 

 absolute proof of it. It is to be hoped that this will not long be wanting. 



Major Hobday, who accompanied this party, succeeded in mapping 

 4,300 square miles of hitherto unexplored country lying to the N. E. 

 and E. of Bhamo. 



Captain Longe, R. E., and Lieutenant Gordon accompanied the 

 columns which operated to the north and west of Mogaung, and succeed- 

 ed in reconnoitring some 1,500 square miles of new country. The expedi- 

 timi under Lieutenant Daly, which started from Lashio and visited the 

 chief villages of the states on the eastern frontier of the Shan States, 

 was accompanied by Captain Renny Tailyour, r. e., who during the 

 march of the column reconnoitred 5,250 square miles of unexplored 

 country. This officer was enabled, at Meunglem and at Kenghung on the 

 Cambodia, to compare the results of his work with those of M. Garnier, 

 a French surveyor. These results agreed closely in latitude, but there 

 was some difference in longitude. The Kyaington Cbiengmai frontier 

 mission under Mr. Archer was accompanied by Mr. Kennedy as survey 

 officer. He succeeded in mapping 9,000 square miles of previously un- 

 known country, lying chiefly to the north of that mapped during the 

 previous year by the Anglo- Siamese Boundary Mission. 



In addition to the above special reconnaissances, the general survey 

 of Upper Burma has been carried on by two parties under Captain 

 Longe, R. E. and Mr. Ogle respectively, and the outturn of their past 

 season's woi-k amounts to 21,794 square miles. 



Baluchistan. — Geographical surveys on the I and h inch scales have 

 been carried on by the party under Colonel Holdich, R. E., in the Zhob 

 Valley, in Mekran, and on the Perso-Baluch frontier, the total area 

 amounting to 30,240 square miles. 



Persia. — Sub-Surveyor Imam Sharif Khan Bahadur was employed 

 dining the year on exploration work in Persia, and returned with the 

 Large total of 30,500. square miles of reconnaissance, on the scale of 8 

 miles to the inch. 



N.-W. Frontier. — The expeditions which operated on the Miranzai 

 border and in the Black Mountain country were accompanied by 

 Captains Mackenzie and Wahab, r. e., respectively. In the former, 

 278 square miles were surveyed on (lie 1 inch scale, and 20 on the | inch ; 

 and in the latter, 184 square miles on tho 2 inch, and 360 square miles 

 on the | inch se:ilc. 



A party under Lieutenant Close, R. E., has continued the principal 



