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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [92v] (189/739)
The record is made up of 1 volume (367 folios). It was created in 1898. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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130
No. 74—
TIamadan to Zinujan, vid
No.
of
itage.
Names of stages.
D istattcbs
in miles,
Interme
diate.
Total.
B emaeks.
General Summary of Itoute,
From the foot of mount Alwand a grassy plain
extends to the north, the group of hills called
the Buwata Dagh, being the most conspicuous
point in that direction.
About 45 miles from Hamadan the road crosses
the lower western spurs of that group, which
appears to consist of a central map of rocky
mountains rising 2,000 to 3,000' above the
plain, and surrounded at a distance of, at the
point traversed, about 6 to 8 miles, by a belt of
low hills; the range appears to be continued to
the north-west in a chain of rocky hills, which
is probably the same afterwards crossed at Bijar,
further to the west; the most prominent peak ob
served from the Buwata Dagh in this direction
may probably be identified as the Kuh-i-Znghal
pointed out from Bijar to the south-east of that
place.
From the Buwata Dagh an undulating grassy
plain is crossed to the foot of the Paighambar
Dagh, a great map of round-topped grassy hills,
crowned by a central rocky citadel: inside the
outer ring of hills and surrounding this citadel
is a belt of richly cultivated land, with many
villages.
Crossing the outer circle of hills to the north of
Bulam Haji, the road skirts the valley, down
which the Teheran-Tabriz road and telegraph
passes, keeping high above it, and to the south,
until they meet at Zindjan. Throughout the
whole distance villages are numerous and water
in streams and springs plentiful ; corn is fairly
plentiful, especially in the rich country surround
ing the Paighambar Dagh.
A considerable amount of coarse grass grows on
the hill sides and undulating country.^
With the exception of the fruit-trees in gardens,
and a few groves of willow and poplar near the
streams, firewood does not exist ; cowdung is the
chief fuel used by the inhabitants.
Large caravans of pilgrims from Tabriz and the
neighbourhood of Tiflis were met; they were nearly
all mounted on excellent strong ponies in good
condition.
The road is good throughout and practicable for
wheels, with the exception of a few hundred yards
in place which might easily be made so.
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The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia. Section III. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India (Simla: printed at the Government Central Printing Office, 1898).
The volume contains details of all land routes (numbered 1-247) in Persia starting from Russian territory and extending south as far as a line drawn from Karmanshah [Kermānshāh] south-eastwards through Burujird [Borūjerd], Isfahan [Eşfahān] and Yazd to Karman [Kermān], and thence north-east to Khabis [Khabīş] and Neh to Lash Juwain [Lāsh-e Juwayn].
The information given for each route comprises:
- number of route;
- place names forming starting point and destination of route;
- authority and date;
- number of stage;
- names of stages;
- distance in miles (intermediate and total);
- remarks (including precise details of the route, general geographical information, and information on smaller settlements, local peoples, agriculture, condition of roads, access to water, supplies of wood, and other routes).
An appendix within the volume (folios 356-359) and two separately-stored sets of loose sheets (containing routes numbers 77 (a) and 140-A, folios 363-369) give information too late for incorporation in the body of the work.
The volume also contains pockets attached to the front and back inside covers for maps. These consist of an index map showing the limits of each of the three sections of Routes in Persia (folio 2) and an index map to the routes in Section III (folio 361). There is also a fold-out map of the route from Seistan [Sīstān] to Mashad on folio 232.
An ink stamp on the front cover records the confidential nature of the publication and that it was being transmitted for the information of His Excellency the Viceroy (Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin and 16th Earl of Kincardine) only.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (367 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains an alphabetical cross index (folios 6-17), and an alphabetical index to names of places (folios 18-25).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates on the last page of the loose supplementary sheets (found in the small grey folder within the main folder); these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the volume also contains a printed pagination sequence.
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- 'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:58r, 59r:232r, 232r:233r, 234r:361v, back-i, 363r:363v, 365r:369v
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