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Subject(s)

• Himalaya Mountains—Discovery and exploration—Maps [Browse]
• Brahmaputra River—Discovery and exploration—Maps [Browse]
• Physical geography—Himalaya Mountains—Maps [Browse]
• Great Trigonometrical Survey of India [Browse]
• Surveying [Browse]
• Triangulation [Browse]
• Himalaya Mountains—Maps [Browse]
• Nepal—Maps [Browse]
• Tibet Autonomous Region (China)—Maps [Browse]
• Kathmandu (Nepal)—Maps [Browse]

Related name

Rāvata, Naina Siṃha, 1830-1895 [Browse]

Engraver

Weller, Edward, 1819-1884 [Browse]

Publisher

• Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) [Browse]
• John Murray (Firm) [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Topographic maps [Browse]
• Maps [Browse]

Notes

• Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.
• Routes of expedition are shown in red.
• "The Longitude is in accordance with the old value of the Madras observatory (80.°17.'21.")"
• Tarjams (post houses) and camps are shown.
• Boundary of the British Territory is shown.
• Tibetan provinces are shown.
• From: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 38, (1868), pp. 129-219; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v.38 1868
• Romanized name of Indian explorer: Nain Singh Rawat.

With

Issued to accompany article: Report of a route-survey made by Pundit ______, from Nepal to Lhasa, and thence through the upper valley of the Brahmaputra to its source / by Captain T. G. Montgomerie, R.E., of the Great Trigonometrical Survey, in charge of the trans-Himalayan survey parties. Read before the Royal Geographical Society, March 23, 1868.

Contents

Includes inset: "Continuation of map north-west of Gartokh from the Pundit's journey of 1867".

Other format(s)

• Available also online through the Princeton University Libraries, Digital Map & Geographic Data Web site.
• Online version of companion article available also through the JSTOR Web site. Access limited to subscribing member institutions only.

In

Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 38 1868, p. 129-219, facing page 128. London : John Murray

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