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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [‎5] (30/122)

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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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8
B oute N o. 6—con id.
No.
Names of stages.
D istance ist
miles.
of
stage.
Inter
mediate
Total.
E emaeks.
Gouar Valley. Oovod camping ground. No in
habitants, but plenty of grass and water and
cattle procurable. From here good road but
rough over Tang-i-Jouimerk. At 10| Tirao
Valley, good camping ground.
10
Khoeassabad...
ioi
176|
Road at first stony, then over loose friable soil,
then down valley. At 8J ford of the Ab-i-Kerind.
At 10 reach main road from Bagdad to Karman
shah. At 10J Khorassabad, 40 houses, the first
since Mendeli. It is 10 miles north-west of Ha-
runabad.
11
Ha RUNABAD ..i
10
1861
The road from Khorassabad to Harunabad is
through an open valley with plenty of water.
12
Mahidasht
22
2081
Good road over hills. At 18 miles begins the
plain. At Mahidasbt there are a few huts.
13
Kaemanshah
18
226|
First 6 miles over plain. The last 8 miles are
over low hills and ridges. Karmanshah has po
pulation variously stated from 40,000 to 70,000.
Route No. 7-
F rom B agdad to K armanshah via K hanikin.
Authority and date — B ell, 1881; M aunsell, 1888.
D istance
in
No.
Names of stages.
miles.
of
stage.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
R emabks.
1
Bakuba
31
(33)
31
Road starts as a broad track over clay, whicli
would be impassable in wet weather. At 31
miles cross river Diala, 150 yards wide, moderate
current. There is a swinging bridge of boats,
10 in number, banks are clay, water muddy.
.Bakuba has 1,000 houses.
2
Shaeaban
26
57
Road runs with telegraph line over a great fiat clay
plain with many villages. At about 20 miles,
near village of Lughwan, cross a canal 40 or 50
feet wide. Numerous small canals are passed at
intervals. At 26 miles reach Sharaban, 300 houses,

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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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