Preliminary Map of the Routes Followed by the Members of the Afghan Boundary Commission 1885

Old map of Afghanistan, Bādghīs.

day Badghis Province) in the northwestern part of the country, on the border with present-day Turkmenistan, which at that time was part of the Russian Empire. The map shows rivers and populated places. Relief is shown by hachures; the height of mountains is given in feet. The scale is one inch to 24 miles (2.54 centimeters to 38.62 kilometers). The map was drawn by Major T.H. Holdich, an officer with the Royal Engineers of the British Army in India, and was prepared for a paper on the Afghan Boundary Commission that was read to the Royal Geographical Society in London in March 1885. The map was produced by lithographer Edward Weller (1819-84), a London-based cartographer and engraver who was the unofficial geographer of the Royal Geographical Society.

Created by Thomas Hungerford Holdich, Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Edward Weller in 1885.

• Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
• Original resource extent: 1 map : color ; 20 x 17 centimeters.
• Original resource at: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.
• Content in English.
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