CHAPTER XIV 



SURVEY WOKK OF THE EXPEDITION — BY R. S. CLAKK. 



TTHE Map* accompanying this volume is based on the plane 



carried out by Hazrat Ali, of the Survey of India, the ill-fated nicniDer 

 A rmr party, whose death at the hands of^he Chinese near Lan-chou brought 

 pedition to an untimely close. A short description of the means and 

 i on the survey will, we trust, be found of interest- 

 " ' '' t of the instruments used, and 

 «herc ;ftern etc., we give a few notes .^ ...... 



■ riefly tht: » our base, for carrying out the who e 



ats; finally 



,-i9bioa aobiO aril no iaenu?- 



ometer 

 t Half -Chronometer (Biockiey, Kew certificated) 



j fin!'" "' :ronograph. 

 3 ' (Cary) 



I nometer. ( „ ) 



rcurial Barometer. ( ,, ) 



I Road-wheel. 



Bes4-lines. 



(a) As described in Chapter I, the party went into car .;l5 a h 

 miles out of T'ai-ytian Fn to measure a base-line, the * 



* In » p«dMt At tba «tMt «f rvAmo*. 

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