1.—During 1883, 4 & 5 the author—then Hon. Sec. S.A.C.—mapped out a few foot paper chases, and in 1887 d& 1888 he extended this mapping over the fuct chases then laid by him.
2.—From 1886 to 1890 the author—as locator of the Ghauts Badger Hunt—had not only to find and locate earths but al to map out the paths whereby the barrow (heavily laden with spades, &c.) could get thereto, 3.—The great drought of 1887 laid bare many (usually water-hidden) otter holes. Hoping to add otter tu badger hunting, Mr. Comins largely extended his map; but at length had to surrowfully admit that no part of this Shanghai country is suitable for otter hunting.
4.—But the map had grown:—had become valuable, 6°, in 1889, the author it into a reliable riding MODE OF MAPPIXG, This was done thus. The author made and attached tu his map a reduced outline of the Mu thin thi we he carefully located all the lofty landmarks of the settlement.
Then, starting at the 2-mile stone turn, use was made of that part ut the French Sicawei Road which thence runs—almost in This road, running almost at tight angles to the Defence Creek is hight it has not only mile and 4-mile stones, but kilometre and }-kilo. et From exch of these 16 stoves the marsman noted straight lines to each of the more prominent landmarke of the settlement, and then filled in what prominent country landmarks lay along exch I On this road he also noted (as he afterwards noted on secures of the spots) the exact places where any two or more settle-Iandmarks were exactly in At length the Sicuwei Observatory Tower was reached, and its summit was used as a sort of hub of a wheel, whence carefully angled lines—like wheel spokes—were ruled in the exact direction of every Iaudmark. Afterwards lines were drawn from the mile posts on the other four roads (English Sicawei, sstield, Carter and Markham—there is a nile st-: me behind Alpha Farm) and then, as at Sicawei, radiating lines were taken and indexed from "bout forty prominent centres.
At first these lines did not quite agree, but after they had been re drawn two or three times, the who'e tedious thousand or more of them came right,
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