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

Map No. 1 Sheet A-K-45-D-45-D-45-D-45-D-45

Latitude 86°. Azimuth 86°. Triangulation 86°. ............... N

Heights by theodolite, by clinometer ............... 3337 | 1773

Heights by barometer or hypsometer ............... 1773

Perpetual snow (approximate) .

Salt-sand area .

Erosion terraces. Mesas. Yardang .

Hard salt crust .

Hard salt-encrusted clay .

Soft salt-encrusted clay .

Cultivation unsurveyed .

Edges of cultivation, etc., where surveyed .

Roads or river-scrub living, dead .

Sandy tracts with scrub or jungle .

Tamarisk cones, living, dead .

Wild poplars (Toghrak) living, dead .

Tamarisks living, dead, Saksaul .

Index to countries Published under the direction of Colonel Sir C.G. Burrows, K.C.B., R.E., F.R.A., Surveyor General of India, Index 86 adjoining sheets Spring, Well, Karez .

Scale 1: 500,000 or 7.9 miles to 1 Inch

EXPLANATION OF SOME TURKI AND CHINESE TERMS

Buai — Spring Kul, Kol — Lake Pao (or Po, Bo) — Walled village
Chao — Ach-shaam Kum — Sand Sai — (Sai) — Gravel, stony or gravel
Daria — River Kumush — Reeds Shan (Shan) — Mountain
Dawan — Pass Kurgan — Fort, mound Tagh — (Tagh) — Mountain
Dong — Well Langar (?) — Rest house Tagh — Mountain
Ho (Chin.) — River Mazin, M. — Spirits tomb Tighma — Ravine
Kol (?) — Marsh Miao (Chin.) — Temple Yoma — Temple
Kakar — Watch station Ogon — Shepherd station Yailak, Yailagh — Grazing ground

Objects etc. which geodetic control could not allow to be shown

Main road .

Other roads and paths with pass .

Telegraph line .

Temporarily-unmaintained shrine. Sacred tomb .

Path, ancient, recent, Mina .

Temporarily occupied hut .

Frontier wall, direction, remains .

Walled town, ancient, ruined. Ruined mound (Stupa) . [symbol] A

Ancient site, watch-tower. Cairn .

Ravine with cairns, 1900-01 .

Route with cairns, 1906-08 .

Route with cairns, 1913-15 .

Camps of Sir A. Stein or Mir. Yalub Khan in 1913-15 . [symbol]

Camps of Sir A. Stein and Atlas Sur in 1913-15 . [symbol]

Camps of R. B. Lal Singh in 1913-15 . [symbol]