Ob TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEYS. 



the Dangs survey, this being divided into four annual instalments, 

 and the Baroda Government contributed Its. 5,500 per annum 

 towards the expenses of surveying their State, on the condition 

 of 550 square miles per annum being surveyed until completion of 

 the whole. In April 1881 Colonel Haig, who had had charge of the 

 party for some years, was deputed to the Geographical Congress 

 at Venice.* and the command devolved first on Captain Hobday and 

 then on Lieutenant-Colonel Leach, V.C., R.E. The survey in the 

 Dangs Forest, which in previous years had been found to be attended 

 with much malarious fever, had by this time reached a more open 

 country, and it was thought the field work might be safely com- 

 menced early in the season ; unfortunately the ground is then 

 covered with high dense grass, and all the surveyors, European 

 and native, with a single exception fell ill, thus the experiment 

 failed and the season's out-turn of work fell beloAv what had been 

 expected. During the same year (1880-81) Mr. Le Mesurier and 

 the native establishment of the Bombay Revenue and Settlement 

 Department were re-transferred to their own department after 

 having been attached to the Gujrat Survey for eight years, during 

 which time they had done good service in map-drawing and 

 incorporating the details from the Bombay Revenue Survey maps 

 into those of the professional survey party. In 1881-82 the plane- 

 table work iucluded the northern part of the Baroda State which is 

 watered by the Saraswati river, and to which much historic interest 

 attaches. Patau, one of the chief towns in that locality, is built 

 on part of the site of Anhilwada, the old capital of Gujrat before 

 Ahmadabad was built. Anhilwada is said to have been 18 miles in 

 circumference, and the heaps of old ruins to be found for miles 

 round Patau seem to corroborate the statement. Patan and Sidhpur 

 are both situated on the Saraswati river, which is venerated as a 

 goddess, and the latter town (Sidhpur) is a noted place of pilgrimage, 

 the remains of the Rudra Mala Temple of Shiva being an object of 

 considerable archa?ological interest. Another remarkable feature 

 of the season's survey was the hot sulphur spring of Unai ou the 

 boundary between the Baroda and Bansda States, into which at 

 certain seasons crowds of people rush and bathe without cessation 

 for two or three days together. The water as tested by Colonel Haig 

 was of the temperature of 138° Fahrenheit, but this is probably 



* Two medals were awarded at this Congress to meritorious Indian native explorers, 



one being assigned lo M S (see page l-i'2) and the oilier to A K 



(p. 156). 



