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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [6] (31/122)
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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6
R oute N o. 1—contd.
No.
Distancs in
MII i ES .
Bbmabes.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
8
Kizil Robit
18
75
Cross 300 yards of flooded country and many
canals; one 20 feet wide 10 feet deep, by a culvert.
Over undulating country, and then over a flat
clay plain to Kizil Robat, 400 houses. Road
from here to Mendeli is 2 day«.
4
Khanikin
19
94
Cross canal 10 feet wide by 6 feet deep, and then
cross a few undulations. Then over broad clay
plain to Khanikin, crossing river 200 ynrds wide
by ford 2' 6'' deep and difficult. Khanikin lies in
a hollow and has 2,000 houses.
6
Kise-i-Shiein
18
112
(uoi)
Good hard road, 30 feet wide, winding through a
hillocky country. Cross the frontier marked by
a tower. Over undulating country by good road
to Kasr-i-Shirin. The Elwand River flows close
to the village.
6
slbipul
20
132
(128J)
Road is a clay track, swampy in hollows. Many
watch towers are passed : road runs over a grassy
broken plain to Siripul-i-Zohab. Crossing
Elwand or Rejiab stream by a bridge of masonry,
2 arches of 27 feet span, bridge 18 feet wide,
buttress 35 feet, total length 80 yards. There
are 50 houses at Siripul.
7
Mian Jangal
(Kurdish tents.)
(Keeikd.)
24
156
Q57J)
Road runs through a flat valley passing several
villages. Good hard road 20 feet wide. Pass
Tak-i-Gira and then ascend the Tak-i-Giia pass ;
there is a good made road down from it. The
road then becomes a hill track, crossing ridges
and valleys to Mian Jangal.
8
Gavaeea
25|
1811
Two miles of very bad ascent up rocky ravine,
thence over ridges and valleys to the Bowanieh
Valley, passing several villages and crossing a
stream 30 feet wide, 2| feet deep, with firm
bottom, then over swampy valley. Then over
low hills by a good mule track to Gavarra at 25
miles. Gavarra has 400 houses.
9
Mahidasht ...
25
206|
Ford stream 40 feet wide, 2 feet deep, rapid and
pebbly. Thence over undulating country^ by
narrow clay track, with several difficult crossings
of streams. On the hills the road is good, but
the valleys are swampy. Mahidasht has fifty
houses.
10
Kaemanshah...
16
222|
(216|)
Cross several flat valleys with small streams; the
Mahidasht plain is well stocked with villages and
extends 15 miles to right and left. The road is
an undulating broad track passing many vil
lages to Karmanshah.
The figures in brackets are taken from Captain Maunsell's Report, Volume I, page 275, There seema to be some
mistake m Captain Mauosell's addition,
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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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