1835.] Biographical sketch of Col. MackeJizie. 279 



2. Memoirs of the Survey of Mysore^ Geographical, 

 Statistical, and HistoricaL 



The original copies, in seven volumes folio, were sent 

 to England to the Court of Directors in 1808, accompa- 

 nied by general maps, exhibiting the country in detail 

 on a scale of four miles to an inch, where all its features^, 

 rivers, mountains, and every place, are laid down ; late- 

 ly introduced into Arrowsmith's general map of India, 

 by permission of the Court of Directors. A series of 

 provincial maps, on a scale of one mile, descriptive of 

 the several provinces, were also compiled from the ori- 

 ginal sections of survey deposited in the office at Madras. 

 3. Memoirs of the Ceded Districts. 



On the same plan with that of Mysore; including the 

 geography, statistics, and history of these provinces, ac- 

 companied by maps from scales of one to four, twelve, 

 and twenty-four miles to an inch. Two volumes sent to 

 England, and more than two more still in preparation, 

 to be transmitted to the Court of Directors. 

 4. Materials for a General Vieiv of the South of the 

 Peninsula. 



The above have been executed under the immediate 

 direction of Colonel Mackenzie, and the same plan is 

 now under execution for the remaining districts under 

 Fort St. George, so far as the measures adopted by this 

 government may admit. The completion of the whole 

 being designed by Colonel Mackenzie to furnish a bo- 

 dy of materials for a complete view, geographical, statis- 

 tical, and historical, of the whole British possessions in 

 the south of the Peninsula, accompanied by maps, under 

 the immediate protection of the East India Company, at. 

 whose expense the surveys have been executed ; but the 

 historical and literary materials have been hitherto chief- 

 ly obtained at Colonel Mackenzie's private expense. 



5. Materials for a complete view of tlie geography, sta- 

 tistics^ and history, ancient and modern, of Java, and 



