Excerpt from A Report on the Delimitation of the Turco-Egyptian Boundary: Between the Vilayet of the Hejaz and the Peninsula of Sinai, (June-September, 1906;) This Report contains a detailed account Of the operations which were carried out for delimiting a boundary between Turkish and Egyptian territory in the east Of the Sinai Peninsula. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...with instructions and stating Mr. Keeling is appointed as topographer. Remainder of day fitting out. May 17.--Forming camp at Giza. Afternoon went to Observatory and discussed arrangements with Mr. Keeling. Remainder of day fitting out. May 18.--Interview with Acting D. G. at Survey Department, and with Mr. Craig. Drew most of necessary stores. Afternoon packing. May 19.--Interview with Major Owen who expects to leave for Suez on Wednesday. Arranged to start myself on Tuesday, so as to have time for rehearsals there. Fitting out and packing. May 20.--Mr. Keeling arranged to do same and I notified Major Owen accordingly. Fitting out and packing. May 21.--All kit removed to Cairo station, and forwarded to Suez with two chainmen. May 22.--Left for Suez docks at 11 a.m. Made an azimuth observation by way of rehearsal, and set up a camp. The spider lines of theodolite were much damaged by jolting and I decided to replace them. Scaled off position of my observing station from the Admiralty charts which are adjusted to Sir D. Gill's longitude. May 23.--Successfully rewebbed theodolite, and made observations for local time by the sun's altitude. At night determined the same by equal altitude of stars. Compared all chronometers. They have changed a good deal inter se but the mean is good (as shown by agreement of longitude found with that of map). The calculation of sun's altitude was made at once, and the full computation of the star observations was complete by 11. 30 p. m. May 24.--Continued various computations all the morning. At 3. 30 p. m. reckoned and recomputed the sun's altitude. At night reobserved stars of previous night. Placed most of the kit on the "Nur el Bahr" (Coastguard cruiser). May 25.--Placed remainder of kit on...