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-ated on hillsides and in the glens and smaller valleys, where they vary from 90 to 120, and perhaps more, to an aore.. It is impossible to represent such minute detail on the 16 inches to a mile scale, with any degree of utility. For purposes of the Rent Roll also, it is necessary that dwelling lots should be shewn on the Maps. Villages therefore are now surveyed in detail as well as the cultivated lands.: On the 18 inches to a mile scale such detail surveys of villages are impossible. During the past year, no Villages have been surveyed in detail for this reason.
In India while the 18 inch Scale
is that generally adopted for the plains, the scale is rejected when Cadastral Surveys in the Himalayas are undertaken, for larger scales. In the Himalayan Valleys and even in the bill- side cultivation the fields are larger than those in the hilly tracts of the New Territory. In the plains of India where the 13 inch scale is in general use for Cadastral Surveys, except in certain localities where local considerations compel the adoption of a larger scale, Villages and Towns are always surveyed (when necessary) on a larger scale, and as a separate operation.
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In the Surveys in this. Colony every- thing is being done in one operation by the survey Staff, except the demarcation on the ground of the boundaries of clains, and the record of owners' names.
(88.) 3. P. Tate.