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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [9] (34/122)
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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9
R oute N o. 9 — contd.
Ho.
D isiaitce in"
milks.
f
stage.
Names of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
B EMAEKS.
3
C amp in bed of
an old canal.
11 •
Mounted at 6-15 a.m. and took the road to Toprak
Kala. At 8^45 a.m. alighted at Seyid Mukbsen
Pauk, a little Imam, on a canal from the Khalis.
At 9-45 a.m. mounted again, and at 11-45 a.m.
alighted at an old dry canal. From Toprak Kala,
the general direction of our road was north 10°
east, but we often turned out of it to avoid the
deep mire.
B eaeinog from the C amp.
4
5
6
6
7
T echubuk
D eli A bbas ...
K ara T apa
K ifri
Imam Majedid, south 72° west, half a mile.
Musabbah Khan, north 86° east, distant less than
a mile.
Abdullah Ben-Ali, south 43° east, in the district of
Khorassan.
Nahr-ul-Aswad, south 51° west, in the district of
Khalis,
Marched at 6-30 a.m., and at 10 a.m. arrived and
encamped at Techubuk. A difficult march, wad
ing through water and mire most of the way.
Mounted at 6-15 a m. We were obliged to turn
out of our road, and to keep towards the Diala
on account of the water left by rain. The line of
Zagros, extending to the Tauk, formed the
extreme boundary of our view as soon as we left
Techubuk. Arrived at Deli Abbas at 9 a.m.
Mounted at 5-30 a.m. We could not go the direct
passage over the Hamrin hills on account of the
water from the late rains. At 6-30 a.m. we
arrived at the pa^s in the Hamrin hills, called
Sakal Toutan. Here our road was north 10°
east.
At 7-30 a.m. the road to Baradan branched off.
We meant to have gone to Baradan, but the
Karin was reported to be too difficult to ford
(April) in consequence of the rains. Our road
due north.
At 8-15 a.m. we left the mountain on our left
hand, and reached the bridge of the Narin at
10-20 a.m. Mounted again at 11 a.m. At 12-40
p m. arrived at Kara Tapa. Excellent going all
the way.
Marched at 5 30 a.m. north 10° east over gravelly
hills, on the western declivity of which Kara
Tapa is situated; slope extremely gentle : de
scended into a small valley, then over an arm of
the hills, from which we descended by a long
slope to the Tchemen bridge at 7-30 a.m.; thence
north, to the broad torrent, at 8-30 a.m. Over
a plain and by Telischan. At 9-10 a.m. entered
on another elevation, also by a very gentle slope.
At 9-40 a m. mounted again, and at 11 a.m.
arrived at Kifri.
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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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