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also undertaken, so as to supply accurate maps of the alluvial valleys 

 adjoining some of the larger rivers, which -would show village 

 boundaries and the course of the stream, with the accretion and 

 decretion of lands since the iast surveys were made. The Muzaff- 

 arnagar district was completed during 1879-80, and the special 

 survey on the 4-inch scale of the villages subject to fluvial action 

 was extended so far as the Jumna forms the common boundary of 

 the Karnal district of the Punjab and the Meerut district of the 

 North-West Provinces. 



The success of the system of transferring the village boundaries 

 from the settlement field maps to the survey maps was found to 

 depend entirely on the accurate identification of the points adopted as 

 trijunctions of village boundaries by the settlement survey. In 

 1880-81 the topographical survey operations were continued in the 

 Meerut district as well as the 4-inch survey of the line of villages 

 on both banks of the Jumna river. In the following year Major 

 Wilkins was transferred to Burma, and, after a brief interval, Mr. E. 

 T. S. Johnson assumed charge. The work was continued on the 

 same lines as in previous seasons, and areac were traversed in districts 

 Bulandshahr ami Aligarh, in preparation for the next year's topo- 

 graphy. Mr. Johnson retired on the 29th April 1883, after a lengthy 

 and useful service under Government. After Aligarh, Etah district 

 was next undertaken, but at the close of the season the work was 

 suspended, as the Government arrived at the conclusion that the 

 existing revenue settlement maps, in spite of their imperfections, 

 would answer all revenue requirements, and that surveys in other 

 provinces were more urgently required. The party was therefore 

 withdrawn from the Etah district, and it was arranged that they 

 should be employed iu the ensuing season on the Ajmir-Merwara 

 district boundary survey. 



North-W( st Provinces. — The revenue survey of Moradabad in 187(3- 

 77 was on the cadastral system, which is described at pages 182 and 

 183 of Mr. Markham's " Memoir on the Indian Surveys " (2nd 

 edition). The scale was 16 inches to the mile, and the work was 

 connected with the fixed points of the Great Trigonometrical Survey. 

 The operations were also extended into District Budaun, but here 

 the scale was reduced to four inches to the mile, and the survey was 

 of the ordinary muzawar or village by village character. The 

 cadastral measurements iu Moradabad were completed in 1877, and 

 the village survey of Budaun in the ensuing year. Ghazipurwas the 



