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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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Route No. 6.
F rom B agdad to K armanshah via M bndelt.
Authority and date — M aunsell, 1888.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
DlSTAlfCE I If
MILES.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
E emabks.
Khan Beni Saad
(Turk O eta
Khan) {Arab
Beni Saad).
Baheiz
Balad Ruz
Mendeli
Muaeenna Camp
Chemisueek Val
ley.
ktjins of old
Zaena.
Chaemilia
Camp.
Tieao Yalley...
171
Hi
23
27
251
15f
201
m
29
52
79
1041
120|
140 J
166
Broad track over flat alluvial
pass ruins of old serai.
clay. At 10 miles
No villages and no
Leave main road.
At 10 miles cross the Diala River by a ferry. 400
houses at Bahriz, Well-supplied bazaar.
Eoad skirts Nahr Khurassun canal; track is 10 feet
to 12 feet wide. Canals 4 feet wide and 1 foot
deep. Main channels 6 feet to 8 feel deep. Pass
Shahr Habib (ruins). 600 houses at Balad
Rnz. Canal 30 feet wide, bridged.
Road through reedy marsh for 2 miles. At 18
miles the JNuffat River, 20 to 25 yards wide, 6
feet deep. Ford is 40 yards wide and 2 feet deep.
Mendeli has 1,500 houses. Supplies plentiful.
Road across wide plain and irrigation channels,
then along the Gunjir River, 400 yards wide.
At 4| miles cross tbe frontier. Road good and
easy. At llf miles pass Imam-i-Sunomar, some
gravelly mounds, still along river. At 16| miles
crosis sandstone ledge 40 feet high. At 17|
miles ruins of old fort, Kala Dabruleh. At 22
ford Gunjir River, road a rough narrow track.
At 25| ford Gunjir River,
supplies at camping ground.
Keep along^ the river. Road is a rough track,
sometimes in the river bed. Road crosses many
spurs. At 11| miles ford the Gunjir River; ford
40 yards wide, 2 feet deep. At llf turn sharp
to the north up a side valley. At 15f miles Che-
misurek Valley. Good camping ground for troops.
Fodder, fuel, water, and cattle available in quan
tities.
Road over mountains and several passes ; rough and
difficult going, sometimes in the bed of a torrent.
Generally, however, passable for artillery. At 8
miles reach Miandab Valley. At 11 pass some
ruins. At 20^ reach site of ruined town called
Kuhna Zarna,
Good road in the valley. At 5 miles pass ruins of
Zarna. At 6 miles cross pass, at 8 emerge into
Bankur Valley. Road rough and stony. Cross
several ridges to Charmilia camp. Good grass
and water.
% stony ascent up the Derband-i-Kala ja pass,
I jo O d teet above Charmilia, at 3 miles from it.
Descent of the pass is steep and rough. At SJ
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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.
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- 1 volume (57 folios)
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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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