. Anglais : c'est un mur vertigineux size site de l'Inde et de Ceylan publié en 1768 par Thomas Jeffreys. Couvre le sous-continent indien à partir de Mekran à l'ouest jusqu'à l'Assam et Aracan dans l'Est, et du Bhoutan dans le nord, le sud à Ceylan et aux Maldives. Offre des détails extraordinaires tout au long, avec de nombreuses annotations sur des questions géographiques, historiques, et culturelles. Affiche les routes, routes caravanières, oasis, les temples, les villes, les lignes du traité, des sites archéologiques, des chaînes de montagnes, lacs, marais et rivières. Cette carte offre une panoplie de renseignements pour l'historien qui s'intéresse l'évolution politique de l'Inde

• Contributeur: The Picture Art Collection / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: MMPKMY
• Taille du fichier: 14,3 MB (1 MB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 2533 x 1974 px | 21,4 x 16,7 cm | 8,4 x 6,6 inches | 300dpi

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. English: This is a staggering wall size map of India and Ceylon issued in 1768 by Thomas Jeffreys. Covers the Indian subcontinent from Mekran in the west to Assam and Aracan in the east, and from Bhutan in the north, south to Ceylon and the Maldives. Offers extraordinary detail throughout, with numerous notations on matters geographical, historical, and cultural. Shows roads, caravan routes, oases, temples, cities, treaty lines, archeological sites, mountain ranges, lakes, swamps and rivers. This map offers a smorgasbord of information for the historian interested political changes in India during the 18th century. Identifies Delhi (or Shah Jehan Abad), Agra, Bombay, Goa, Calcutta, Pondicherry, and countless other major and minor cities. Our map predates the definitive Alexander Dalrymple mapping of India in the 1770s and so is quite vague in a number of areas - especially those controlled the independent Maratha Confederacy southwest of Bihar. In this area there are several speculative rivers as well as large lake, labeled Chilea or Ganga. This is most likely an erroneous mapping of Chilka Lake (Chilika Lake). Chilka Lake is the second largest salt water lagoon in the world - but was clearly missed by early mapmakers working on the Orissa coast. Far to the north, just outside the border of the map, a note reads, A cow cut in the rock. This is supposed to refer to the source of the Ganga or Ganges River. In Hindi this site is called Gomukh, which translates literally as, The Cow's Mouth. The site itself is a cave that does in fact somewhat resemble the mouth a cow - but in this case something seems to have been lost in translation. In Assam, Jefferys maps the supposed locations of the apocryphal Lake of Chiamay. Early cartographers speculated that such a lake must exist as the source of four important Southeast Asian river systems including the Irrawaddy, the Dharla, the Chao Phraya, and the Brahmaputra. This lake began to appear in maps of this region as early as