V. MAPS, ETC. 787 



The map E represents a surface of 70 geographical square miles in level 

 country. On copper to the scale of T^tnnnj-) ^vith the water, meadows, and 

 districts coloured. 



' SECKETAIIY OF STATE FOR INDIA. 



3153. Selection of Maps to illustrate the progress of Carto- 

 graphy and Surveys in India. 



The Secretary of State fw India. 



(1.) Fortelezas do Mombaim e Ilha de Carania. 



Old Portuguese plans of Bombay and Karanja, extracted from the " Livro 

 de Antonio Bocarro, Guardamor de Archive Keal da India," &c., 1646. 

 (Bombay was ceded to England in 1661, and became the seat of the presi- 

 dency in 1683. The Portuguese retained the Island of Karanja in the 

 harbour of Bombay until it was seized by the Mahrattas in 1683. In 1774 

 Karanja was taken by the English.) 



(2.) Dutch chart of the Deccan (properly Concan) and 

 Malabar Coasts s with the Laccadive and Maldive Islands and the 

 Padua Bank, &c., including the western coast of India from Diu 

 to Cape Comorin and part of the Gulf of Manaar, with soundings. 

 Date, 18th century. MS. (No. 227). 



Dutch chart of the Malabar Coast and Backwaters, from 

 Coilang (Quilon) to Cranganor, with soundings. By Jan Tim, 

 revised by H. G. Farraut, Engineer. Date, 1697. MS. (No. 



229). 



Dutch chart of the coast of Coromandel, from Toudy to Point 

 Goddewarre (Godavery). Also a chart of the coast of Orissa. 

 MS. (No. 254). 



These are selected from a series of MSS., the originals of which are in the 

 State Archives at the Hague, and catalogued in the " Inventaris der Ver- 

 zameling Karten berustende in het Rijks Archief," 2 vols., 8vo. 



(3.) Collection of Dalrymple's charts in 1 vol. 



(4.) Bengal atlas, containing maps of the theatre of war and 

 commerce on that side Hindoostan, compiled from the original 

 surveys, and published by order of the Honourable the Court of 

 Directors for the affairs of the East Indian Company, by James 

 Eennell, F.K.S., late Major of Engineers and Survey or- General 

 in Bengal, 1781. (Second edition." 4 21 niaps, folio, bound. 



(5.) RennelPs map of India. 



(6.) Geographical and statistical map of the north-east part 

 of the Mysore dominion or the ceded districts, &c. By Colin 

 Mackenzie, Survey or- General of India, 1815. Scale, 4 miles to 

 1 inch ; size, 59 inches by 74. MS. 



(7.) Topographical survey of Madras and its environs, by the 

 Officers of the senior class of the Military Institution, 1806. 

 Scale, 2 inches to 1 mile ; size, 78 inches by 49. MS. 



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