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included in six sheets of the coasts of the South Concan,
Canara, and Malabar." In 1857, Lieutenant Taylor surveyed
the harbour at Carwar, the anchorages at Beypoor and Cochin,
and, on the east coast, the Bay of Coringa, which had been
surveyed by Lieutenant Warren in 1805, and Commander
Fell in 1846. The Madras Government presented him with
a sum of 2,000 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. , and thanked him, as they did also
Lieutenant E. R. May, who had been employed for some years
on detached survey duty under their orders.
On his return to England Lieutenant Taylor prepared for
the Admiralty his " West Coast of Hindostan Pilot, including
the Gulf of Manaar, the Maldivh and Lakadivh Islands," which
was published by the Admiralty in 1866. But his magnum
opus in this important branch of literature, was his " India
Directory," or sailing directions for the whole of the Indian
Ocean, with observations, and charts of the winds, passages,
and currents,, published by the Messrs. Allen in 1874.
This valuable and exhaustive work, for which the author
only modestly lays claim that it is "founded" on the
"India Directory" of the late Captain Horsburgh, is, in
point of fact, almost an original work, and the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. of
these pages, who assisted him in an humble way in its
preparation, can endorse Mr. Markham's testimony that
44 there is no man living who is so intimately acquainted with
the anchorages on the Indian coast, from the mouths of the
Indus to those of the Godavery, or who so completely under
stands their capabilities for improvement."
On Lieutenant Taylor's return to England Lieutenant Wil
liams continued, in the 4 Euphrates,' the examination of the
small portion of the Malabar coast not yet surveyed. Having
completed this, he arrived at Bombay on the 11th of May,
1860, and, on the 15th of September, again proceeded to
examine a portion of the coast of Ceylon. The 'Euphrates'
returned to Bombay on the 4th of February, 1861, and, later
in the year, was employed, with the 4 Falkland,' Commander
Fraser, in the examination of Sedasheghur as a cotton port
during the monsoon. In September, 1860, Lieutenant C. Forster
continued, in the steamer 4 Assyria,' the survey of the rivers
of the Punjaub, on which Commander Grounds and Lieutenant
Stroyan had been engaged ten or twelve years before. During
this year (1860) Lieutenant Whish made a complete survey of
Bombay harbour, on several sheets, on a large scale, which has
since been reduced and published by the Admiralty. He then
proceeded to the Punjaub, and was engaged, with Lieutenant
Forster, in the survey of the rivers in that province until his
return to Bombay on the 11th of November, 1861. On the
3rd of February following, he commissioned the 4 Euphrates,'
with Lieutenant Williams as assistant-surveyor, but the
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