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

Latitude 38°, Azimuth 8th Triangulation 8th ▲ ★

Heights by theodolite, by aneroid _____ 12000 s

Heights by barometer or hypsometer

Perpetual snow (approximate) }

Drift-sand area

Erosion terraces (Adai, Yardang)

Hard salt crust

Half salt encrusted clay

Soft salt encrusted clay

Cultivation, permanent

Edge of cultivation, etc., where surveyed

Roads of new origin (living) dead

Sandy tract with tamarisk jungle

Tamarisk (above living) dead

Wind poplars (Toghrak) living dead

Tamarisks living, dead Cantons

Index to localities
[grid reference box]

Published under the direction of General C. H. D. Ryder, C.I.E., D.S.O., R.E., Surveyor-General of India
1923.

Scale 1: 500,000 or 1·014 inches to 8 Miles

EXPLANATION OF SOME TURKI AND CHINESE TERMS

Aural Soring Pul, Kul Jum Pao-Mo, Ta-pao Mazar-i-high
Chai Altikam Kum Jand Su Darof (Kara-su-great)
Daria Kol Kaman Jilga Tagh Mazar
Darchi Pass Robat Suman Su-Tai (Chu) Pust
Dawan Kul Kizil Ugh Tash Mazar
Ak (Kiz.) Kum Mazar, Ak Darchi Tughrak Puzul
Ak (Kiz.) Maz Maz (Chu.) Darchi Yol
Kanat Makh-dalan Sipil Darchi Yailak, Yailagh Champ ground

[Distances only where given by contour scale are shown in blue]

Index to adjoining sheets:
[grid reference box]

Spring, Well, Karez
Main road ___________
Tracks and paths with pass ___________
Telegraph line ___________
Tombs, Muhammadan shrine, Sacred cairns ○ ○
Fort, outpost, ruined, Mine ■ □ □
Temporarily occupied camp
Frontier post, distillery, depots
Ruined town, estuary, ruined, Ruined mound (British) ⊕ ▲
Ancient site, watch-tower, tower ○
Route with camp, 1900-01
Route with camp, 1906-08
Route with camp, 1913-16
Camps of Sir A. Stein or Mir. Naick sites in 1913-16 ——1:500
Camps of Sir A. Stein and Afraz Gul in 1913-16 ——
Camps of R. B. Lal Singh in 1913-16 ——