‘REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1887-88’ [‎62r] (128/531)

CHAPTER II.—ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAND.
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Geeat Teigonometrical Survey of India.
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Two survey parties were at work in the Bombay Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. during 1886-87. One of
them was employed in Gujarat and the other in the Southern Mardtha Country.
The Gujarat Party surveyed topographically 1,086 square miles in the Palanpur and Gujardt Party.
Main Kantha Agencies. The cost was Rs. 20 per square mile. A very remarkable feature
of the country surveyed was the cave temple of a Manak-Nath ” which lies embedded in
the side of a hill about seven miles south-east of Danta and about If miles north of the
small village of Lotal. It is said to he capable of containing 2,000 persons and is considered
a sacred place of pilgrimage. The detachment of the party detailed for the execution of an
8" topographical survey of the Thana, Nanclgaon and Yeola Forests surveyed 290 square
miles at an approximate cost of Rs. 128 per square mile. The work was of a very laborious
and rigorous nature, great accuracy being demanded and obtained. An 8" survey of the
Cantonment of Deesa with its environs within a radius of four miles was executed at a cost
of Rs. 149 per square mile. Members of the Party were employed in surveying certain portions
of the boundary between Meywar and Marwar which has for a long time been under dispute.
The Southern Maratha Party completed the topographical survey of 934 square miles Southern Maratha
near Dharwar. But the chief work done by it was in connection with the survey of the Part y'
Kanara forests. The country in which the forest survey was carried on was mountainous
and very inaccessible. The forests there were about 100 feet high, and the climate, which is
always unhealthy, was during the year even worse than usual, and prostrated the establish
ment employed. The survey of 113 square miles of forest was completed at a cost of Rs. 250
per mile. It has been decided that a party under the supervision of Colonel Pullan should
in future undertake all forest surveys in the Bombay Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. .
Tidal and Levelling Operations.
No new tidal observatories were started during the year ending 30th June 1888, nor Observatories,
were any of the old ones dismantled, but the question of the advisability of constructing a
second observatory in the Bhavnagar State was under consideration. At the observatories
at Aden, Karachi, Bhavnagar, Bombay and Moramgao the self-registering tide gauges, ane
mographs and barographs recorded, with a few exceptions, the tidal and meteorological
changes very regularly. The tide gauge at Karachi failed to record continuously on 19
different occasions, but the curves could in every case be readily interpolated by hand.
The anemograph at Karachi was out of order for 5 days and the barograph at Mormugao for
28 days. In April 1888 the latter instrument had to be removed for repairs.
The tide-tables for Indian ports for the years 1887 and 1888, published in England, Tide Tables,
contained predictions for 8 ports in the Bombay Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. , viz. Aden, Karachi, Okha
Point (Gulf of Cutch), Kathiwadar (Shial Bet on the south coast of Kathiawar), Bhavnagar,
Bombay, Mormugao, and Karwar. The differences between the corresponding actual and
predicted values of the heights and times of high and low waters were observed, and in the
case of Aden, Karachi, Bombay and Mormugao, statements showing the percentage and
amount of errors were prepared.
Levelling operations were carried on in the Bengal and Madras Presidencies. Levelling operations.
KEVENUE SURVEY.
Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. Proper.
t> . Th fi ■ Re 1 1 reilue Sul : ve y Pities at work during the year were the Gujardt Revenue Survey Parties at work.
Party, the Poona and Nasik and Southern Maratha Country Revenue Survey Party and
the Ratnhgiri (now Konkan) Revenue Survey Party. The subjoined statement shows’ the
effective strength and out-turn of work of each of these Parties:—
Party.
Number of
Establishments
employed.
Field Operations.
Area surveyed.
Area classed.
Gujarat Revenue Survey
Poona and Nasik and Southern Mardtha (Country Survey
Ratnagiri Revenue Survey ...
Total
■ Total for 1886-87
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Acres.
119,181
1,362,707
136,620
Acres.
250,071
1,066,082
104,028
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1,420,181
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1,538,596
1,538,058