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3 APPENDIX D.
4 SmUCT VBOM LBIfTBirAlIT MACAttTMBT'S XBMOUU
5 I AM well sware of my inability to perform a task of the present kind, but
6 At tiie paitkniUtr vrish of Mr. Elphinstonc, I have attempted it, though
7 1 much fear it will be found very imperfect ; and from tlie short stay ol" the
8 embassy at Peshour, and my time being chiefly employed in obtaining routes
9 and protracting them on the spot, the general accounts of countries are not
10 so full as I could have wiibei.
11 COHSnUCTipN OB THS HAP.
12 In the construction of the map, particular atLeiiiiuii was paid to obtain t he
13 correct ] stance of some grand points, from wiiich more distant oiiea were
14 afterwards tu be settled ; thii WM done by various iDUtet iet off from point*
15 fixed by obsemtum in the route of the Cabul embenjr* and the space ooiv
16 Tfkhiti lime great an^^es has been filled up as much as posiQile by
17 cnW» TXWrtftt, whidi gives the great bends of the road, and of course the
18 position of these points more correct than by setting oft" the gross distance.
19 The windings of the road cannot be laid down with any degree of cer-
20 tainty from the direction given "by the natives ; I have therefore ^tended
21 chiefly to cross routes fbniiiiig great angles, to itaui Hietrtie bearings of the
22 roads.
23 The fint gnmd point I thought necessary to fix was Bukhur, situated on
24 an island fimned by the river Indus, in latitude 27° 30' north, and longitude
25 69* aof east. The points from which I fixed the position of this were Beeka-
26 neer, Buhawulpoor, and Mooltan. Tliis was done by taking the mean of
27 several routes t rom each of these places. The distances were set ofiT in cosa,
28 which I found to be ainOe andahalf each, by the ran of the perambulstor
29 ftom Bee ^^nmtw to Mooltan* The distance of Buhawulpoor from MooHan
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