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CHAPTER IX.
1848—1863.
Surveys undertaken from the Death of Sir Robert Oliver to the Abolition of the
Service .-—Lieutenant Selby on the West Coast of India; Surveys in the Gulf
of Cambay and on the Kattywar Coast by Lieutenants Grieve, Constable and
Taylor; of the Punjaub Rivers by Lieutenants Grounds and Stroyan ; of the
Malacca Straits and Inland Waters of Pegu by Lieutenant Ward—Flying
Survey of the Irrawaddy River by Commander Rennie and Lieutenant Heath-
cote—Current Charts by Lieutenants Taylor and Heathcote—Survey of the
Persian Q-ulf by Lieutenant Constable, assisted by Acting-Lieutenant Stiffe—
Surveys of Commander Felix Jones in Mesopotamia—Lieutenant Carew
and the Persian Grulf Telegraph Line—Surveys in Mesopotamia by Commander
Selby and Lieutenants Collingwood and Bewsher—Lieutenant Taylor's Survey
of the Malabar Coast—Lieutenant Dawes' Journey into Central Arabia, in
company with Colonel Pelly—Services of Officers of the late Indian Navy'
during the Abyssinian War—Lieutenant Taylor's Memorandum on Marine
Surveys, and his Appointment as Superintendent of Marine Surveys in India.
rpHE surveying work of the Indian Navy, between the years
J- 1849-57, embracing the period of the administrations of
Commodore Lushington and Sir Henry Leeke, contrasts favour
ably with the preceding decade, during which Sir Robert
Oliver was at the head of the Service, when, owing to the
peculiar views held by that officer, surveys were decried as
useless, and their prosecution deemed a waste of public time
and money.
In October, 1850, Commodore Lushington proceeded, in the
cutter 6 Margaret,' to the Gulf of Cambay, a new survey of
which was in contemplation, with a view chiefly of determining
what alterations may have occurred in the currents, tides, and
soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water. since the survey of the Gulf, commenced by Com
mander R. Ethersey in 1837. In 1848-50, Lieutenant Selby,
in the 'Taptee,' and the tenders 'Maldiva' and' Cardiva,' with
Lieutenant A. D. Taylor, Assistant-Surveyor, and Mates M. A.
Sweny, R. W. Whish, G. O'Brien Carew, and C. Forster,
surveyed portions of the Laccadive Archipelago and Angria's
Bank, made a chronometric survey of the Bombay Bank of
soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water. , a work of considerable labour, surveyed the entire
approach to Bombay Harbour, and connected the North Canara
with the Guzerat coast, including the tail of the Malacca