‘Sketch of the Coast Between Kurrachee and Bunder Abbas’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Sketch of the Coast Between Kurrachee and Bunder Abbas’
- Date:
- 1864/1864
- Description:
- Abstract: Distinctive Features:Undated. Produced about 1864 when the telegraph line opened.Proposed telegraph stations shown in red, proposed telegraph line between Karachi (Kurachee) and Gwadar (Guadur) shown in green. Proposed telegraph line between Gwadar (Guadur) and Bandar Abbas (Bunder Abbas) shown by pecked line with explanation: ‘probable, but country not investigated’.Inscriptions:On recto:Below title: ‘Showing the site proposed by Major Goldsmith for the intended Line of Telegraph and Stations; and the extent of Territory ruled by each Chieftain’.In the bottom right-hand corner: /Signed/ H. Ryland; ‘Copied by Nourrojee Penslonjee’ and illegible signature.On verso, top left-hand corner: ‘Referred to in Bombay Political Letter 24th April [illegible] 32, 1862’.Physical description: Materials:Pen and ink on tracing clothDimensions:537 x 880 mm, on sheet 592 x 921 mm
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Map
- Type (Narrower):
- Maps
- Type (Broader):
- Image
- Geographic region:
- Mekran Coast
- Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000926.0x0000f5_ar
81055/vdc_100000000926.0x0000f5_en
IOR/X/3085
IOR/X/3085