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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [353v] (711/739)
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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648
No. %Vl ~~contd.
Z indjan to S akiz, via Nasirahad and Sabil.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istittcbs
in milbs.
E emakks.
Interme
diate.
' Total.
2
H ijubad
. 1 •
00
80
tank of ft small canal and niGGt tliG nv^r a^am
soon after, where it takes a bend to the south?
hours. —The river which we have been followmo.
now flows into the Kizil Uzen, which takes a
bend here and flows west. Follow up the right
bank of the Kizil Uzen for a short distance and
soon reach a bridge which is crossed and the river
left. The bridge was built bj a private individual
quite lately and is in very good order. It is of
brick on stone foundations of hexagonal shape.
It has four pointed arches, and is about 80 yards
long, 20 feet wide and 60 feet high in the centre.
The road across it and the approaches to it are
paved with stone. The latter are steep and
slippery. The banks of the river on both sides
are high rocky ^ hills without vegetation. The
bed of the river is sandy, but the water at present
is confined to one channel about 4 feet deep with
deep pools in places (July).
2J hours. —From the bridge ascends a steep rocky
ravine, and then passing between low rounded
hills, the road begins to descend again.
6 hours. —In a hollow x mile left small village
Khajur.
4J hours. right of road, village Gurgi, about
60 huts and a few orchards. Just near this
village a spring oi good water, and a little be
yond this a dry river-bed. Surrounding country
appears fertile, but thinly populated, about ^ of
the ground being cultivated. Koad up and down
over small hills. The Bijar hill can be seen
faintly to the left front. The country about
here is similar to that between Bijar and Harna*
dan, low flat-topped hills without any prominent
features. Direction about west.
7 /iowrj.-—Reached village Hajiabad, about 30
huts.^ River Kizil Uzen is about J mile south of
the village. Both banks of the river are well
cultivated. Mosquitoes and sandflies very bad
here.
Continues ^ direct west, descending towards the
river which takes a bend north-west here.
a Aown —Crossed the river-bed about 80 yards
broad and sandy, but little water. Just before
reaching the river passes a mill. Road on
other side of river ascends. Direction 236*.
♦ hour —Reaches village Zihanab (Kishlak Khali-
i fa) about 30 huts.
4 Aowr. Having ascended from the river reaches
tne top of the hill where there are four cross*
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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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