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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [195] (518/578)
The record is made up of 1 volume (289 folios). It was created in 1933. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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AFGHANISTAN— APPENDIX NO. V— 1895.
cxc V
A Table of the Latitude and Longitude of the Boundary Pillars erected by the Joint
Commission for the delimitation of the Russo-Afghan Frontier on the Pamirs
in the year 1895, from Astronomical Observations by Lieutenant-Colonel Za-
liessky —concld.
Number of
boundary
pillars.
Latitude.
Longitude.
Description of the pillars and of the places where
they are placed.
Pillar No. 7
37° 22' 33"
(Topographi
tion).
44° 15' 7"
cal Observa-
The pillar is erected on the right bank of the river
Aksu, opposite the mouth of the stream Gunji-
Bai at a distance of 20 feet from the bank of
the river named, and is built of cobble stones
in the shape of a pyramid, 9 feet high.
Pillar No. 8
37° 24' 45"
(Astronomic
tion).
44° 22' 0"
al Observa-
The pillar is erected on the left bank of the river
Aksu, opposite the mouth of the eastern branch
of the river Mihman-Yuli, 70 feet from the bank
of the river, and is built of cobble stones in the
shape of a pyramid, 9 feet high.
*Pillar No. 9
37° 22' 41"
(Topographi
44° 23' 10"
cally fixed).
The pillar is erected on the elevated side of the
valley of the river Mihmanguli, 3 versts (2 Eng
lish miles) from the confluence of its right branch
with the river Aksu, and is built of cobble stones
in the shape of a pyramid, 8 feet high.
♦Pillar No. 10
37° 21' 15"
(Topographi
44° 27' 5"
cally fixed).
The pillar is erected at the extremity of a spur
of the Mustagh Range, which juts out from
Peak Montagu Gerard and divides the waters
of the river Tegermen from the waters of the
stream Kashkasu, and is built of cobble stones
in the shape of a pyramid, 8 feet high.
♦Pillar No. 11
37° 20' 15"
(Topographi
44° 25' 50"
cally fixed).
The pillar is erected on the bank of the Teger
men Su 10 versts (6-3 English miles) above the
point where the stream Bakhmir flows into it,
and is built of cobble stones in the shape of a
pyramid, 9 feet high.
♦Pillar No. 12
37° 20' 5"
(Topographi
44° 24' 50"
cally fixed).
The pillar is erected on an elevation of the left
bank of a nameless stream, which flows into
the river Tegermen-Su near Pillar No. 11. a
verst and a half (1 English mile) from its mouth,
and is built of cobble stones in the shape of a
pyramid, 8 feet high.
* From sketches of the Russian Topograph ists.
Povalo-Schveikovsky. Major-Genl.,
Imperial Commissioner.
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The volume is the fifth edition of volume 13 of a collection of historic treaties, engagements and sanads (charters) relating to India and its neighbouring countries, namely Persia and Afghanistan. This volume, originally compiled by Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Under Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department, was revised in 1930 and published in 1933 by the Manager of Publications in Delhi, under the authority of the Government of India.
Part 1 of the volume contains treaties and engagements relating to Persia and dating from between 12 April 1763 and 10 May 1929. The treaties refer to: trade agreements; foreign relations; prohibition and suppression of the slave trade; sovereignty and status of Persian regions; frontier negotiations; foreign concessions; telegraph lines. Part 2 of the volume contains treaties and engagements relating to Afghanistan and dating from between 17 June 1809 and 6 May 1930. The treaties relate to: foreign relations; the establishment of boundaries and frontier negotiations; peace treaties; commercial relations; import of arms. A number of appendices follow part 2, which contain the text of treaties relating to both Persia and Afghanistan.
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- 1 volume (289 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged into two parts covering Persia and Afghanistan respectively, as are the appendices at the end of the volume. Each part is divided into a number of chapters, identified by Roman numerals, and arranged chronologically, from the earliest treaties to the most recent. At the beginning of each part is a general introduction to the treaties and engagements that follow.
There is a contents page at the front of the volume (ff 4-8) which lists the geographical regions and treaties. The contents pages refers to the volume’s pagination system. There is a subject index, arranged alphabetically, at the end of the volume (ff 277-87) which also refers to the volume’s pagination system.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio (except for the front cover where the folio number is on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ).
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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