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'Ceylon'
'Published under the direction of W.C.S. Ingles [...], Surveyor General'
'Phot. Lith Survey Dept. Ceylon'

Scale: 1 inch to 8 miles

Maps and plan of Ceylon.

This series is part of Patrick Geddes’ large collection of maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of countries and regions around the world. Much of this collection was part of Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition.

'Published under the direction of W. C. S. Ingles [... ] Surveyor General, Ceylon'

Annotated in manuscript in pencil, parts shaded in coloured pencil (red, blue).
Annotated in top left corner in manuscript in pencil by Patrick Geddes referring to 'Dev[elopmen]t of [... ] Docks and Canal Basins' and to 'Reclamation of Lowlands and Swamps'.

Scale: 1 inch to 16 chains

'Published under the direction of W. C. S. Ingles [... ] Surveyor General,
Ceylon'

Roads, contours of terrain and flood levels marked in different colours.

Scale: 1 inch to 16 chains

'City of Colombo'

Two copies of a map of the City of Colombo, differently annotated.

Scale: 1 inch to 16 chains

'Published under the direction of W. C. S. Ingles [... ] Surveyor General, Ceylon'

Longitudinal section of a stretch of land at Colombo.
Anon. [Patrick Geddes]

Scaled: 1 inch to 16 feet

Annotated in manuscript in pencil by Patrick Geddes in bottom left corner.
'Buckley. Irrigation in India.' endorsed on the reverse in manuscript in pencil next to a small architectural sketch.
[See Patrick Geddes, 'Colombo Report', plan 6 'River Mouth Improvement'.]

Two maps of Colombo.

Scale: 1 inch to 1/2 mile

'Plan de la Ville et du Fort de Colombo dans I'lsle de Ceyland, lors de leur reddition aux Anglais le 16 Fevrier 1796'
'Dessiné parTombe’
'Gravé par Amb. Tardieu'
Ambroise Tardieu after [ ] Tombe.

Scale: 2.4 cm to 500 toises

’Pl[ate]. VII.' from an unidentified publication.

'Published under the orders of Mr. W. C. S. Ingles [... ] Surveyor General, Ceylon'
'Compiled from Surveys made 1916'
'Photozinco Survey Dept. Colombo, 1.[ ].18'

Scale: 1 inch to 1/2 mile

Scale: 1 inch to 1/2 mile