1861.] 
The progress of the Kashmir Series. 
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The triangulation of the Great Trigonometrical Survey may he 
joined on to that of Russia, and thus accomplish the project of 
Colonel Everest the late Surveyor General of India, who wished to 
measure the arc between Cape Comorin and Nova Zembla, an arc 
that would include nearly 70 degrees of the earth. To accomplish 
this there at present remains a gap of little over 5 degrees of Chinese 
territory, the operations of the Kashmir series extending beyond 
Lat. 36° and the government of Tobolsk now coming down below 
Lat 42°. At any rate if the war makes the Chinese officials on our 
North East frontier friendly, we may succeed hereafter in fixing the 
geographical positions of some of the great cities of central Asia. 
T. G. Montgomerie, Cap. Engrs. 
1st Assistant Gt. Trigl. Survey of India, 
In charge Kashmir Series. 
Route from Sleardo via Shigar and Nagar to Gilgit. 
No. of 
Marches. 
Distance 
in 
Miles. 
Names of 
halting-places. 
Remarks. 
1 
18 
Skardo to, 
Shigar, 
A large village. 
2 
15 
Kushamul, 
A village. 
3 
16 
Chutran, 
Literally hot water from a hot 
4 
20 
CD 
Arundu, 
spring. 
Village. 
5 
3 g p- 
Yak Kole, 
Very bad road crosses a pass and 
6 
a « S» 
Hai-Hutun, 
goes over a very long glacier. 
A had road. 
7 
50 “ CD 
, D CD 
CD H 
Hispir, 
A village, march longer than 
8 
t cL§ 
** 3 
Hoper, 
usual. 
A village. 
9 
CD CO 
3 
Nagar, 
Do. 
10 
Pal; her, 
Do. a long march. 
11 
Nillit, 
Do. Do. 
12 
Chaparote, 
Do. Do. in Gilgit. 
13 
Naomul, 
Do. Do. Do. 
14 
Gilgit, 
Do. Do. Do. 
N. B. — The Hoonza river is very much smaller than the Shigar. 
There are three roads from Hoonza to Yarkand, one that takes 12, 
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