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xvi INTRODUCTION depute with me. Very experienced and indefatigable in the field, he carried on the plane-table work with much care, always under my direct supervision. He rendered effective assistance also in my archaeological tasks by preparing plans of sites, etc., and helping to supervise excavations. The extent of the surveys effected can be judged by the map which was prepared at the drawing office of the Royal Geographical Society for my paper in the Geographical Journal

1 and which the Society has kindly permitted to be attached to the present volume. Owing to the great stretch of ground over which my explorations extended, some 800 miles in a straight line from S.E. to N.W., the general map had to be drawn on the greatly reduced scale of i : 2,000,000. In it the portions shown with hill-shading are reproduced from the original plane-table sheets on the scale of 2 miles to 1 inch, with adjustment to any trigonometrically or astronomically fixed points. Other heights indicated in these portions are derived from barometrical observations with hypsometer and four aneroids and from clinometrical readings. Portions without hill-shading have been reproduced from degree sheets of the map of 'India and Adjacent Countries' published by the Survey of India. Owing tO/the small scale of the general map it has been impossible to show in it all archaeologically important sites and other localities referred to in the text. In order to meet this need it became necessary, in addition to the two inset maps on the scale of 1 : 250,000 and 1 : 750,000, respectively, shown by the side of the general map, to insert ' See ' Ari Archaeological Journey in Western Iran ', Geographical Journal vol. xcii., October 1938, pp. 313-42.