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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part II.—Physical Science 1866

1867

It represents on a scale of 40 verstes (27 miles) to the inch the southern portion of the Kirghiz Steppe or approximately speaking the region between the Eastern shore of the sea of Aral and the Chinese frontier extending from 76° to 102° of longitude and from 40° to 50° of latitude and comprising th© northern half of the district called Touran. [...] In the first of these circles Captain Nifantiew of the Topographical Corps surveyed the region that is bounded on the west by the road which crosses the Khabar Assou Pass anti by the course of the river Tiunyrysk ; on the south by the chain of the Tarbagatai; on the cast by the line of the Chinese posts and on the north by the Kitehkint: Tatou mountains branches of the Manak and of the Tar [...] 1st From the post of Kastek by the pass of the same name to the mouths of the little Kebin and thence re -ascending the river Tam! to the months of the great Kebin then 40 verstes of the lower course of this last river. [...] These surveys embrace the following localities ; 1st the two banks of the river Yany Dania ; 2ndly the left bank of the Syr-Daria from the fort Perowsky to Yany Kourgan a destroyed fortress belonging to the Khokans and thence to the place called Baildyr Tougai ; 4thly the northern and southern slopes of the Karataou chain ; 5thly the mouths of the river Eiuba and the Bay of the Caspian Sea [...] Among the newly made maps the principal are the map of the country of Orenbourg on a scale of 50 verstes to the inch ; new map of Central Asia and the country of Orenbourg.200 verstes to the inch ; and 24 sheets of a special map of this country on a scale of 10 verstes.
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82
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sarf.120250
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