National Institute of Informatics - Digital Silk Road Project
Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books

Latitude by observation for Triangulation Stn. ... N. %
Heights by theodolite by clinometer ... 3377 (1029+)
Heights by barometer or hypsometer ...
Magnetic declination (approximate) ...
Drift sand area.
Erosion terraces, Mesa, Yardang ...
Hard salt crust.
Hard salt-encrusted clay
Soft salt-encrusted clay
Cultivation unsurveyed.
Edge of cultivation, etc. where surveyed.
Reeds of the shrub living, dead.
Sandy (river with scrub or jungle.
Tamarisk clump, living, dead.
Wild poplars (Toghrak), living, dead ...
Tamarisks living, used Conifers.

Index to localities
[scale bar]
Scale 1: 500,000 or 7.914 Inches to 8 Miles

EXPLANATION OF SOME TURKI AND CHINESE TERMS

Aurel Daring Kol, Köl Lake Flat-hill, Tuj-hill Walled village
Chap Köl-shaan Kum Sand Bel Road-ridge-or-pass
Chol Bazar Kuhnak Waste Shair (Chin.) Wasteland
Danda Köngles Langar Tower Turfan (Chin.) Turfan (Chin.)
Dong Blind Lenger, U. Post house Tagh Mountain
Dö (Chin.) Blind Mazar, M. Saintly tomb Toghrak Poplar
Etim-a Molla Miao (Chin.) Temple Ulang Canal
Kantur Mazar Mulla-davan Shepherd district Yurtai, Yurtagil Grazing ground

Observe all which primarily denote water or shade +

Index to adjoining sheets:
Spring, Well, Karez
Main road.
Other roads and paths with poles.
Telegraph line.
Tenga, Muhammadan shrine, Sacred tomb. S. P. +
Fort, pavilion, ruined, Mine.
Temporarily occupied hut.
Irrigation well, disused, Swamp.
Walled (encl. Argun), ruined. Ruined mound (Stupa) [symbol] a
Ancient site, watch-tower, Cairn. [symbol] a
Route with camp, 1900-01.
Route with camp, 1906-08.
Route with camp, 1913-15.
Camps of Sir A. Stein on the Yarkand river in 1903-04. [symbol] Y 1904
Camps of Sir A. Stein going away, Oct. to 1913-15. [symbol] ...
Camps of R. B. Lal Singh in 1913-15. [symbol] L.S.

Published under the direction of Colonel Sir S.G. Burrard, K.C.S.I., R.E., F.R.S., Surveyor General of India.

[Longitude markings: E. of GREENWICH]