70 TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEYS. 



being in the Jodhpur State, for' the requirements of the Indian 

 Customs Department. The regular work of the party consisted of a 

 detail survey of the city of TJdaipur* and environs on the 12-inch 

 scale, and detail survey of the neighbouring district on the 1-inch 

 scale. A comparatively small out-turn of work was effected in the 

 following season, but this was mainly due to the intricate character 

 of the ground, which was likened by Major E. H. Steel (who took 

 charge during absence on furlough of Captain Strahan) to " a petrified 

 stormy sea." The ground to the north, whither the operations were 

 moved in 1880-81, proved still more intricate and difficult, and the 

 attitude of the Bhils was very threatening, insomuch so that 

 Mr. Templeton, one of the surveyors, was warned not to return to 

 one of the Bhil villages if he valued his life. In 1881-82 the 

 region about Mount Abu fell within the area of triangulation, while 

 the topography ranged over the three Rajput States of Marwar, 

 Mewar, and Sirohi. The transfer of No. 7 topographical party from 

 Rajputana to Burma led to its uncompleted ground being allotted to 

 No. 1 party, which in consequence assumed the designation of the 

 Central India and the Rajputana Survey party. In the three years 

 1882-85 portions of the country south-west of Erinpura as well as 

 of the desert west of Bikanir and parts of the Sirohi, Palanpur, 

 and Jodhpur States were mapped in detail, as well as special 

 surveys of the Sunda and Dorra ranges of hills, and large scale 

 surveys of Ajmere, Jaipur, Arner or Amber. In 1885-86 the 

 triangulation was carried down to the margin of the Rann of Cutch 

 mentioned below (se< p. 85), while the detail survey was carried on 

 in portions of Jodhpur and tracts adjacent to the Luni river. But 

 at the close of that season the Rajputana party was ordered to be 

 transferred to Baluchistan, so a large tract of this important province 

 of British India remains unsurveyed, with no definite arrangements 

 for its completion. The number of standard sheets unsurveyed are 

 fifty out of a total of ninety-seven, covering nearly all the western 

 half of the province. 



The Khandesh and Bombay Native States Survey worked in two 

 detachments in 1S76-77. one being employed on the ordinary one- 

 inch scale in the Native hilly states north of the Narbada, and the 

 second, under Mr. II. Horst, the officer in charge, on the more 



* A good description of the city will be found from the pen of Lieutenant J. K. 

 Hobday at pages 42 and 43 of the Topographical Survey Report for 1875-70. 



