INDIAN MARINE SURVEYS. 11 



Bombay was that eight miles of coast line were triangulated and 

 20 square miles of water soundings were taken. 



Lieutenant TV. H. Coombs commenced a survey of the port of 

 Kangoon in November 1880 and completed it in March of the 

 following year, the space sounded being eight square miles, and the 

 length of coast measured a little more than 20 miles. Some notes on 

 the history and topography of Kangoon were compiled by Lieutenant 

 Coombs during his stay, and find place in the Report. 



During the summer and autumn of 1881 Mr. P. J. Falle executed 

 a survey on the scale of 400 feet to the inch of that portion of 

 Dowdeswell island (Orissa coast) which lies north of Hukitollah, and 

 is most seriously affected by the action of the winds and waves of the 

 southerly monsoon, as also by the river freshets. Mr. Falle also 

 made observations later on in the year on the set and velocity of 

 the tides in the harbour. 



On the 3rd March 1881 the new surveying steamer " Investigator " 

 was launched, and Lieutenant L. S. Dawson, R.N., an able surveyor 

 of 18 years' standing, possessing considerable experience of hydro- 

 graphical matters, was appointed to the command of the vessel. 

 He eventually succeeded Commander Taylor in the Superintendent- 

 ship of Marine Surveys. 



The work at headquarters consisted in tendering advice on a 

 variety of matters of a scientific description affecting navigation to 

 the Government of India and the local governments and administra- 

 tions. In May 1881 the superintendent was appointed President of 

 a Committee on Indian Lighthouse Administration. 



In 1880 events arose which ultimately had a most important 

 bearing on the future of the Department. In the early part of that 

 year disagreements began to crop up between Mr. R. Carrington, 

 the Superintendent of the Drawing Branch, and some of the Royal 

 Navy officers who had been lent for surveying service by the Lords 

 of the Admiralty ,-and this culminated in the services of Navigating 

 Lieutenant F. TV. Jarrad, R.N., being replaced by the Government 

 of India at the disposal of the Admiralty on the 6th February 1880. 

 Lengthy correspondence followed between the Indian Government, 

 the Commander-in-Chief on the East Indian Station, the Lords of 

 the Admiralty, and the Secretary of State for India. This led 

 eventually to the Government of India determining to institute an 

 inquiry into the working of the Marine Survey Department, and a 

 committee was appointed for the purpose under the presidency of 



