TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEYS. 87 



Unfortunately, the Conference did not agree upon a report ; no 

 reply was given to the first question put, and great differences of 

 opinion were manifested in regard to the best scale to be adopted. 



The Government of India, being thus inops consilii, fell in with 

 the middle course suggested by the Bombay Government ; they 

 decided that the 2-inch scale should be prescribed for the Topo- 

 graphical surveys, and that the Bombay revenue sheets should be 

 utilised wherever they could be used with advantage. At the same 

 time, the Bombay officers were directed to supply in future such 

 additional topographical details as might be required.* 



The Topographical party in 1876-77 was under the care of Colonel 

 C. T. Haig, who in March made over the charge to Lieutenant J. E. 

 Gibbs, 11. E. A good amount of topographical work was turned out, the 

 greater portion being in the Native State of Baroda, which occupies 

 a central position in the area allotted to the survey. Lieutenant Gibbs 

 was, however, attacked with cholera on the resumption of the 

 field work, and unfortunately died on the 21st November 1877. 

 Though quite young he was one of the most promising officers 

 of the Department, his abilities were of no mean order, and his 

 descriptions of the Dangsf and other localities surveyed by him 

 showed considerable power of observation. The native establishment 

 of the survey also suffered a good deal in health from the effects 

 of the famine. Lieutenant Gibbs was succeeded by Lieutenant 

 St. G. C. Gore, who was transferred from the neighbouring Bhopal 

 and ILaiwa survey, and who surveyed 68 square miles of the 

 Dangs Forest tract on the 4-inch scale. The maps of British 

 territory published on the 2-inch scale included, in addition to the 

 details of the ordinary 1-inch scale maps, minor roads, and com- 

 munications, and so many of the field boundary, triple junctions, 

 and other points on the village maps drawn up by the Bombay 

 Revenue Survey that would facilitate the further incorporation of all 

 the details of those maps, if required for the purposes of any new 

 road, canal, or other engineering work. For this work the Bombay 

 Government supplied a special auxiliary agency, consisting of an 

 assistant superintendent from the Bombay Revenue Survey and a 

 native establishment, at a cost of Rs. 500 per mensem. The same 

 Government also contributed Rs. 30,000 towards the extra cost of 



* Letters from A. O. Hume, C.B., Secretary to the Government of India, Nos. 134 

 and 136, dated Pth February 1876. 



f In the Appendices to the G. T. S. Reports for 1873-74 and 1874-75, pp. 32a and 

 36a, respectively. 



