I860.] Memorandum on the Survey of Kashmir. 21 



range, termed for the present K. 2, proves to be 28,278 feet above 

 the sea level, which is 122 higher than Kanchinginga, but 724 feet 

 lower than Mount Everest. It is impossible to say therefore 

 what the exploration of the interesting ground in the Northern 

 Himalayas now under survey may bring forth. The project in hand 

 of bringing all this difficult and hitherto comparatively unknown 

 tract of country under minute and accurate survey is a grand one. 

 For the eastern portion already achieved, and represented by maps 

 in the form of degree sheets on the quarter inch scale, manuscript speci- 

 mens of which are laid on the table, together with one sheet No. 47 

 of the engraved Atlas of India, containing a portion of the same 

 survey, Colonel Waugh has been rewarded by the Royal Geographical 

 Society with their gold medal in 1857 ; and when the whole of the 

 Himalayas from British Gurhwal to the Indus is completed, it will 

 form a noble memorial of the undaunted skill and energy of the 

 officer who planned, and his subordinates who executed it. 



This valuable map and beautiful specimen of Topographical Draw- 

 ing now exhibited in manuscript, measuring 4 ft. 1 in. x 4 ft. 1 in. 

 embraced between the meridians of 74° to 75° 40' East Longitude and 

 the parallels of 33° 20' to 34° 44' North Latitude, has been compiled, 

 on the scale oihalf an inch to the mile, from the Field work of the 

 Trigonometrical and Topographical parties, under the immediate super- 

 intendence of Captain T. G. Montgomerie, Bengal Engineers, 1st Asst. 

 G. T. Survey of India. It embraces eight thousand and one hundred 

 square miles of country including the lovely valley and surrounding 

 mountains of the romantic country of Kashmir, with no less than 

 four. thousand six hundred and six villages, depending on three hun- 

 dred and fifty-two trigonometrical points, and gives the computed 

 positions of the principal towns, mountains, &c. with all the topo- 

 graghical details, viz. : the villages, roads, passes, lakes, ridges, slopes 

 of mountains, &c. 



This is the original scale on which the survey has been projected, 

 a reduction to the usual geographical scale of quarter inch to the 

 mile is being likewise made and this will be incorporated into the 

 Indian Atlas and engraved like the other sheets. 



The compilation of the Map has been executed by Mr. W. H. Scott, 

 the able Chief Draftsman at the Surveyor General's Head Quarters, 



