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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [14] (39/122)
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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14
R oute N o. 10—
Names of stages.
D istance in
miles.
Infer-
mediate.
Total.
B emabes.
10
11
12
Tuz Khubmati
Tauk
24
140
21
Keekuk
Altun Kiupri...
Eebil
Zab Febrt
25
27
30
22
161
Mosul
33
186
213
243
265
298
Tuz Kurmati, small town of 300 houses ; fine pas
ture. Over slightly undulating country with
numerous nullahs, some cultivation and villages;
8 miles Kadez, several other villages passed fur
ther. At 20 miles reach bed of Tauk Chai, |
mile wide, water used for irrigation.
Tauk, village of 200 houses ; cultivation to north
west. Over fairly cultivated plain \ some villages.
At 8 miles cross bed of Daga Ghai, geneially
nearly dry ; then cross three other streams. At
17 miles cross Tasya Kurmun Chai, and pass
large village of the same name ; then some vine
yards, to the Kerkuk Chai, usually almost dry.
All these rivers go to form the Adhaym River.
Along left bank of river bed, through cultiva
tion, to
Kerkuk. After getting clear of the town the
route crosses some broken, hilly ground, and
then descends to a grassy cultivated plain,
Kurdish villages; this is crossed for several
miles ; at 21 miles stony downs.
Altun Kiupri. From here the route runs north
over undulating, well-cultivated ground, passing
a great number of villages, to
Erbii. Route turns nearly due west over undulat
ing cultivated country for 12 miles, then more
stony, to the
Zab ferry. The river is 150 yards wide and rapid
when low; in flood it is 2 miles wide, villages on
either bank. The passage by the ferry-boats is
always somewhat difficult, but it is for<lable when
very low ; gravel bed ; ford dangerous. Villages
on either bank. The route continues over level
ground for 10 miles to the ford of the Khazir,
ordinarily 80 yards wide and stirrup deep, gravel
bottom. Then the ground becomes highly culti
vated, with numerous villages; pass ruins of
Khorsabad and Christian village of Burtala,
finally passing the ruins of Nineveh before
reaching the Tigris, which is crossed by the
bridge to
Mosul.
With the exception of narrow bridges over the smaller
water-cuts and irrigated fields, the whole route
is easily passable for field guns from Bagdad to
Mosul, except the hills between Deli Abbas and
the hilly ground between Kerkuk and Altun
Kiupri, where there would be some trouble, as
also at the awkward bridges at Altun Kiupri.
For the passage of the Zab boats would be re
quired, as fording can seldom be depended upon.
That portion of the route between Deli Abbas
and Tauk is most deficient in supplies. There
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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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