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MAJOR HOBDAY reports of the operations in Upper Burma that during the season of 1887–88, the whole of the Yaw country has been thoroughly surveyed by surveyors attached to the various columns converging on Gangaw. On the north a connection has been made with the work executed by Colonel Woodthorpe's party last year in the Kubo Valley. A good deal of the geography of the Schwele River and the Mohlaing district has also been obtained. The extent of surveying that has been done by the surveyors who accompanied the column from Bhamo to Mogdung and thence by the Jade Mines and Endawgyi Lake to Katha, on the Irrawaddy, is not yet known, as reports have not yet been received. In the Southern Shan States a party under Lieut. Jackson, R. E., has carried on survey operations in continuation of last year's work from Fort Stedman to Pekon, in the Saga Valley, thence viâ Maukme, and Moné to Maing-pan and the Salween River, where the Siamese mission under Mr. Archer was met. Returning to Moné, they carried the survey through Legya and Bansan to Maing-ye. In the Northern Shan States a sub-surveyor has carried our surveys from Thibaw to Namsan, and across the Myit-nge or Namtu River to Theinni, on the Salween, and thence viâ Maing-yaw to Manse and Maing-ye, thus effecting a junction with Lieut. Jackson's work. Major Hobday himself has extended the triangulation from Kyan Nyat to Bhamo, of which the position is thus determined, and a basis provided for the surveys in the direction of Mogaung. It is hoped that the triangulation executed by this party will be connected during this season with that of the surveys in Lower Burma. In addition to the work done by members of this department, many reconnaissances have been executed by regimental and other military officers and the results given to Major Hobday for incorporation in his sheets.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 38, 136 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038136b0
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