Depth shown by soundings and shading. Relief shown by hachures.
Proposed cuts [channels] through the mainland and through [sand] bar are shown.
Coral reefs and "track of native boats" are shown.
Includes inset map showing southern tip of India, northern Sri Lanka, Gulf of Mannar, and Adam's Bridge.
From: Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 4 (1834), pp. 1-25; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v.4 1834.
With
Issued to accompany articles: Papers regarding the practicability of forming a navigable passage between Ceylon and the main land of India. 1. Minute on the subject / by the Right Honourable the Governor of Madras (S. R. Lushington, Esq.); communicated by Admiral Sir E. W. C. R. Owen, K.C.B. -- 2. Report on the straits which separate the Ramnad Province in the Peninsula of India from the Island of Ceylon / by Major Sim, E.I.C.S., 1830; communicated by Lieut.-Colonel W. Monteith, Engineers, E.I.C.S., F.R.G.S. Read before the Royal Geographical Society, November 25, 1833.
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