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partly from the magnitude of the scheme which embraces the whole 

 of Burma and the Malay peninsulas and partly from the necessity 

 of replacing the sheets compiled from old surveys by more accurate 

 work as soon as practicable. The last index map shows that nearly 

 the whole of India west of Burma has been completed and published, 

 the exceptions being Nepal and parts of Gujrat and Rajputana. 

 But the greater part of the Punjab, the Lower Provinces, Madras, 

 Haidarabad, the Berars, the western part of the Bombay Presidency, 

 and Sind are derived from old materials and will have to be 

 re-engraved. In fact, the Indian Atlas sheets that are based on 

 trustworthy surveys (which consist for the main part of a broad 

 belt running north-west and south-east from the Punjab to Jeypur 

 and the Mahanadi, with the addition of Assam, Kathiawar, and 

 the greater part of Cutch) are less numerous than those which do 

 not come up to the modern standard of accuracy. It will thus be 

 seen that there is an enormous area still awaiting the energies of 

 the Department both in mapping and field work before even a 

 satisfactory first survey of India is available. 



The number of sheets according to the original scheme of the 

 Indian Atlas was 177, which included the whole of Burma (at that 

 time independent of the British Crown) right up to, and even 

 beyond, the Salwen river. Events have proved that this precaution 

 was a wise one, and that the wide margin allowed in this direction 

 was not too liberal. But in the extreme north India has outgrown 

 the limits of the Atlas, and three new sheets, 14a, 27a, and 44a 

 (to include Chitral, Gilgit, and Baltistan),have been laid down, while 

 fresh sheets will probably have to be added for Baluchistan, which 

 is now, to all intents and purposes, incorporated into our Empire. 

 A special arrangement, too, has been sanctioned, by which the 

 Indian Atlas is being supplemented by a complete and homo- 

 geneous belt of maps illustrating all the transfrontier regions from 

 Baluchistan round by way of Tibet to Burma, on the same scale 

 as the adjacent Atlas sheets, a most convenient plan in consequence 

 of the unavoidable expansion of the Indian Empire. 



The following are the other principal maps in general demand : — 

 (1.) India. Scale, 32 miles = 1 inch, in six sheets. 

 (2.) India, 64 miles = 1 inch, engraved, in four sheets. 

 (3 and 4.) Railway maps of Iudia on 48 and 64 mile scales, photo- 

 zincographed with hills in grey. 



