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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [2] (27/122)
The record is made up of 1 volume (57 folios). It was created in 1895. 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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2
Route No, 3.
F rom B asra to S hustbr.
Aulhority and M ackenzie , 18T5.
Distance in
No.
of
miles.
B emabss.
Names of stages.
stage.
Inter
Total.
mediate.
1
Mohammeeah
20
20
By river.
2
Village
7
27
On right bank of Karun. By Samazni the river
is crossed by a ferry.^ By the right bank to
Omeira, and there crossing, the distance is short
ened by 14 miles, but there are no intervening
51
villages.
3
Samazni oe
24
Samania
Karun ferry.
4
Omeiea
17
68
5
Ahwaz
10
78
6
Weiss
14
92
7
Band- i -K ie ...
10
102
Karun ferry.
8
Shustee ...
24
126
Karun fordahle. Water up to horses' girths.
Route No. 4.
F rom E ut i /A mara to K armanshah.
Authority and date — M aunsell , 1888.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Distance in
miles.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
Bemasss,
Jessan
Bedba;
zorbatiteh
Huseinieh
K eeeapi P la
teau.
40
13
22
14
22
40
63
75
89
111
At 12 miles the salt marshes hegin and extend to
the 20th mile. In the dry season covered with
thick saline deposit. In floods covered by 2 feet
to 3 feet of water. Numerous flocks and herds
and large date gardens round Jpssan.
Large date gardens. The Gunjianchun River is 500
yards wide. Water slightly brackish.
500 houses: date gardens, and irrigation.
At 4 miles cross the frontier. Eoad along Gunji
anchun, which is forded several times. Large
orchards at Huseinieh and supplies easily pro
curable.
Eoad along the river. All the water brackish, but
drinkable. At 17 miles pass the Tang-i-golam
defile, which is only 20 feet wide.
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The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia. Section II. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India by Captain J. Vans Agnew, 3rd Madras Lancers (Simla: printed at the Government Central Printing Office, 1895).
The volume contains details of all land routes (numbered 1-50) leading from Turkey-in-Asia into Western Persia between Erzerum [Erzurum] in the north and Basra in the south. 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, religious affiliations, condition of roads, access to water, supplies of wood, and other routes).
The volume also contains pockets attached to the front and back inside covers for index maps of the routes, but only one of these (folio 58), 'Index Map to Routes in Persia. Section II.' (compiled in the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General's Department), dated October 1895, is present.
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 (57 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains an alphabetical cross index (folios 5-7); and an alphabetical index to names of places (folios 8-10).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; 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 (except for the front cover where the folio is on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ). This is the sequence used to determine the order of pages.
Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Condition: folio 7 is detached from the volume.
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- 'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:16, 1:94, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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