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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [369r] (739/739)
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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Route No. 77 —
6m
D istances,
Names o£ stages.
Nesher
Inter
mediate.
Total.
Miles.
27i
Miles.
2401
Remarks.
Leaving Dizabad the high road makes a consid
erable detour to cross the river at the bridge.
At 15 mile the ruins of a large village are
passed. On the right is a canal 5 feet broad
leading from the river. At 2| miles two small
aqueducts are crossed. At 3^ mil s the river
is crossed by a ruined masonry bridge, which
consisted formerly of parches, 3 of which have
disappeared, their places being filled up with
earth and wood. The river at present is easi
ly fordable. The main stream is only 5—6 feet
broad. This bridge was formerly protected
by 2 small mud forts, now uninhabited. At 6
miles is the village Dehchal, close to the road
on the right. There are 50 houses, 50 yoke of
oxen and 700 sheep. Yearly produce 1300-
kharwars of grain. At 7I miles is the small
village Kuhran. At 10 miles there is cultiva
tion on the right, and grazing on the left, where
are several large flocks of sheep. At I2|- miles
is the village Tutal, consisting of 50 houses.
There are 1500 sheep here. The yearly pro
duce is 900 kharwars of grain. Near here
were some Zand nomads, from the direction of
Kum said to number 1500 tents. At 13 miles
a marshy lake is reached, where large numbers
of cattle are seen grazing. The lake is skirt
ed till its end is reached at 15 miles. There
is cultivation on both sides of the road. At
J6 miles is a large village, Kurd-Khurd con
taining a fort, 400 houses, 2 kanats and 4000
sheep. Yearly produce is 1500 kharwars of
grain. Maliyat is 1,500
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
cash.
At 19 miles the road gradually ascends. The
soil is a light clay, and crops are good and
wild flowers in abundance, water is obtainable
from an open kanat At 21 miles is the vil
lage Kharand, 140 houses and one kanat.
Yearly produce is 800 kharwars of grain.
There are 500 sheep. At 23I miles the road
approaches a gap in the hills j under it is the
village of Gaokhaneh. Leaving a wide plain,,
which extends some 15 or 20 miles to the right,
the road now ascends by the side of a rocky
river bed Guns could be got along, but not
carriages which would have to make a detour.
At 27% miles is the prettily situated villagfe of
Nesher, on a mountain stream with hills all
round. There are 200 houses and 2,000 sheep.
The yearly produce is 1,200 kharwars of grain*
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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.
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- 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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