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340 BAL UCHISTAN their encampments when their surroundings become filthy beyond endurance. The coast of the Province was originally surveyed by officers of the late Indian Navy between r823 and 1829. These surveys were after- wards revised and corrected by Lieutenant A. W. Stiffe Surveys. in 1874, and excellent charts have been published by the Admiralty. The charts are supplemented by a very complete and accurate account of the coast known as the Persian Gulf Pilot . A systematic survey of the interior was commenced by the Survey department of the Government of India in 1879, and during the succeeding twenty years a triangulation connected with the Indus series of the Great Trigonometrical Survey was extended through the country. In spite of great difficulties, topographical surveys on the half-inch scale have been carried out up to the 66th east parallel, and maps have been published on that scale. Westward, the results of a reconnaissance survey have been embodied in published maps on the quarter-inch scale. Several special large-scale surveys have also been undertaken, including one for a railway in the Zhob Valley and another of the coal- bearing Sor range. In connexion with the settlement operations, a cadastral survey of all irrigated villages in the Quetta, Pishin, Shahrig, Sanjawi, Sibi, Hindubagh, Kila Saifulla, and Bori tahsils has been undertaken on the scale of i6 inches to i mile. These surveys are based on traverses carried out by the Survey of India department, and are being extended to the Duki and Barkhan tahsils. The agency employed is almost entirely foreign, and the local Afghan has so far shown little aptitude for acquiring the principles of surveying. [Baluchistan Blue Books, Nos. i and 2 (I877).-Baluchistan Agency Annual Administration Reports (Calcutta).-Census of India, 1901, vols. v, va, vb.-G. B. Tate: Kalat (Calcutta, 1896).-' Geographical Sketch of the Baluchistan Desert and part of Eastern Persia,' Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, vol. xxxi, pt. 2 (Calcutta, 1904).- M. L. Dames: An Historical and Ethnological Sketch of the Baloch Race (I904).-Sir T. H. Holdich: The Indian Borderland (i9oi).-A. W. Hughes: The Country of Baluchistan (I877).-J. H. Lace: ' A Sketch of the Vegetation of British Baluchistan,' Journal Linnean Society, vol. xxviii (i89i).-C. Masson: Narrative of a Journey to Kalat( (843); Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, and the Punjab (1842).-A. H. M'Mahon and Sir T. H. Holdich: Papers on the Northern and Western Borderlands of Baluchistan in GeographicalJournal, vol. ix.- H. Pottinger: Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde (i8i6).--T. H. Thornton: Life of Colonel Sir Robert Sandeman (X895).] ' London, 1898. Sold by J. D. Potter, 31, Ponltry, and Ii, King Street, Tower Hill.