16 INDIAN MARINE SURVEYS. 



steam frigate " Feroze," in the Red Sea. In the autumn of 1850 

 he was appointed to command the surveying vessel "Pownah,"in 

 which, during the next six years, he carried out a survey of the 

 Gulf of Cutch and the Malabar coast. In 1855 he examined the 

 port of Karwar, and was then sent by Lord Harris (father of 

 the present Governor of Bombay) to survey Coringa bay and 

 Coconada port, on the Coromandel coast, and Cochin, on the Malabar 

 coast. Resuming the latter survey, he finished southward as far as 

 Calicut by the middle of 1859. Later in that year he was sent to 

 pilot the expeditionary force against the rebellious Waghers at Bet 

 and Dwarka, and then proceeded to England on furlough. In 1862 

 Commander Taylor was pensioned off on the abolition of the Indian 

 Navy but, at the request of Admiral Washington, the Hydrographer, 

 his services were utilised in the compilation of Sailing Directions 

 for the West Coast of Hindostan, which work was published in 1865. 

 It was during the course of the next few years that in his researches 

 at the India Office, Commander Taylor became aware how little had 

 been done to improve the hydrography of Indian waters, a subject 

 eventually brought by the Secretary of State under the notice of 

 the Government of India, which led to the formation of the Marine 

 Survey Department under Taylor's charge.* 



During the six years of its existence, the cost of the Marine 

 Survey Department had been as follows : — 



1S75-76 

 1876-77 

 L877-78 

 1S78-79 

 1S79-S0 

 1S80-S1 



Total Rupees - 9,14,067 9 2 



Or, on an average, Rupees 1,52,344 per annum. 



Under Commander Taylor's auperintendentship, i.e., from April 



1875 i the date on which work was commenced at headquarters) up 



to the end of September 1881, the publications of the Marine 



Survey Department consisted of the following : — 68 new charts, 



* See Mr. Markham's Memoir on tbe Indian Surveys (Second edition), p. 45. 

 Commander Taylor last year (1890) signalized the 50th year of his public service 

 by the compilation of a China Sea Directory, a sequel to the Indian Ocean Directory. 



f Including Us. 83,536, part construction of the surveying steamer " Investigator." 



Rupees. 



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1,66.771 



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1,40,484 







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1 ,38,290 



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1,60,207 



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1,13,706 



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1,94,607 







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