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MONTGOMERIE, THOMAS GEORGE. Map of Kashmir with Part of Adjacent Mountains. 1859
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Notes: An army officer assigned to the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, Montgomerie supervised the successful triangulation of Jammu and Kashmir, "remarkable for its accuracy" (Markham), by a team working in difficult high-altitude conditions. He introduced the nomenclature of K1 through K6 to identify 6 mountains in the Karakoram range and later developed the system of training natives as clandestine surveyors to work in areas inaccessible to British personnel. Markham, A Memoir of the Indian Surveys (1878), pages 113-114 and 407.
with: The Himalayan Journal, Volume 22, 1959-60. 16 leaves of photographic illustrations. [12], 178 pages. 8vo, original wrappers, backstrip chipped. Pages [95]-102 contain R. H. Phillimore, Survey of Kashmir and Jammu, 1855 to 1865.
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