Kathiawar: Parts of Gohelwar, North Kattywar & Hallar. Season 1866-67 & 1867-68. Great Trigonomentrical survey of India.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: MapMapPublication details: Dehradun Photozincographed at the G.T.S.Office 1869Description: 1 Map Coloured 72 X 105 cmGenre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 912.5446
Summary: (Sheet No.15 of Kattywar). ORTHOGRAPHY. Accents over letters are indicative of the proper pronunciation : a & ā have the sounds respectively of the first and second a in Mama : e has the sound of a in pale ; i & i the vowel sounds in bit & feel; u that in full, ū that in fool & ai that in dry. Marks under letters indicate the Guzerathi letters from which they are derived, ... & ṇ the dot called the Anaswar over another letter. CONVENTIONAL SIGNS. Trigonometrical Stations & Points respectively Δ & ο or ό. Taluka Boundaries, Metalled roads, Country roads, Foot paths Cultivation, blank. Edge of Cultivation, Waste, Pahlias or " In Memoriam"" stones †. In Villages each block represents 20 houses. In the largest town the number cannot be thus shewn. Relative heights of banks of beds of streams thus 17.r. Barometrical heights thus 450b.Summary: The Latitude are referrible to Kalianpur Observatory,viz. 26° 30' 55". Longitudes to Madras Observatory Old Values viz. 80° 17' 21" Heights to Dangarwari H.S., 97.97 Ft. deduced from Diu Tidal Observations. The most recent value of the Longitude of Madras Observatory is 80° 14' 20", vide Nautical Almanac for 1868; consequently all Longitudes in this map are liable to be diminished by 3'.Summary: Index to Numbers of adjoining sheets.
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(Sheet No.15 of Kattywar).
ORTHOGRAPHY. Accents over letters are indicative of the proper pronunciation : a & ā have the sounds respectively of the first and second a in Mama : e has the sound of a in pale ; i & i the vowel sounds in bit & feel; u that in full, ū that in fool & ai that in dry. Marks under letters indicate the Guzerathi letters from which they are derived, ... & ṇ the dot called the Anaswar over another letter.
CONVENTIONAL SIGNS. Trigonometrical Stations & Points respectively Δ & ο or ό. Taluka Boundaries, Metalled roads, Country roads, Foot paths Cultivation, blank. Edge of Cultivation, Waste, Pahlias or " In Memoriam"" stones †. In Villages each block represents 20 houses. In the largest town the number cannot be thus shewn.
Relative heights of banks of beds of streams thus 17.r. Barometrical heights thus 450b.

The Latitude are referrible to Kalianpur Observatory,viz. 26° 30' 55".
Longitudes to Madras Observatory Old Values viz. 80° 17' 21"
Heights to Dangarwari H.S., 97.97 Ft. deduced from Diu Tidal Observations.
The most recent value of the Longitude of Madras Observatory is 80° 14' 20", vide Nautical Almanac for 1868; consequently all Longitudes in this map are liable to be diminished by 3'.

Index to Numbers of adjoining sheets.