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Indian navy in 1862, the safety of shipping by the provision of 

 necessary charts had been entirely neglected for many years. At 

 last, in 1874, the work was resumed, and Captain Taylor, R.I.N., 

 was appointed Superintendent of Marine Surveys, with an efficient 

 staff of surveyors, and an admirable draughtsman. The good 

 results are now beginning to appear, and an excellent navigating 

 chart of the west coast of India, from Sonmeani to Vingorla, has 

 already been received. 



But Indian cartographic operations have by no means been 

 confined to British territory,. 3,s will have been seen from the allu- 

 sion already made to Colonel Walker's map of Turkestan. The 

 Afghan war led to the production of Mr. Walker's map of Afghan- 

 istan, and to a map on a larger scale by the Quarter-Master 

 General's Department. Since then Mesapotamia has been sur- 

 veyed by the officers of the Indian navy, Persia and Baluchistan 

 by Sir Frederic Goldsmid, Major St. John, and others; while the 

 native explorers despatched by Colonel Montgomerie in various 

 directions over Eastern Turkestan and Tibet have brought back 

 information which has led to the production of very important 

 new maps of portions of those regions (35). In the Geographical 

 Department of the India Office have been produced the interest- 

 ing map of the Mesapotamian Survey (36), a new six-sheet map of 

 Persia, and a map of Baluchistan by Major St. John (37) ; while 

 Captain Felix Jones has completed, after some years of labour and 

 research, an exquisitely drawn map of the region between the 

 Mediterranean and Persia, in four sheets, which has not yet been 

 published. 



Some efforts have been made as regards India to illustrate 

 statistical and physical facts by means of maps, and the most 

 interesting attempt is that which was made by Mr. Prinsep in a 

 series of maps of the Punjab. He endeavoured to show, by the 

 use of colour, the rainfall, the depth of wells, the area of irrigated 

 and irrigable land, the tenures, and the incidence of taxation (38). 

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