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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [17] (42/122)
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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Route No. 12.
F rom K arind to S iripul,
Author Hi / and date — M aunsell, 1888.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istance in
miles.
Inter
mediate.
Total
from
Kerman-
shah.
haeunabad to
Karind,
Pai Tak
Siriptjl-i-Zohab
or Sieipul, or
Zohab.
10
21i
HI
69
80^
92
K emabes.
The stages to Karind from Karmansliah are Mahi-
dasht, Harunabad, Karind. They are on the
main route to Bagdad and are well known. Vide
Eoute No. 6.
Khorassabad, 50 houses, is passed. Easy road fol
lowing the telegraph. At 4 miles pass Keni
Chaomul, a small village. Several small streams
with soft, boggy crossings. Otherwise road is
good. At 10 miles Karind, 600 houses.
Road fair but easily cut up in wet weather. At
miles pass Harir, 60 houses. At 6§ miles pass
Khalata, 60 houses. Road heavy. At 8 miles
wind down a narrow ravine, rough but easy gra
dient. After this road crosses stream and is very
rough and stony. At 15| miles pass caravan
serai of Surkhadiza. Then cross Tak-i-Girra pass.
In the lower portion the gradient is severe and
width only about 6' in places. Total descent is
990' to Pai Tak (camp).
Good road up wide stream called Ab-i-dera. Pai Tak
has a crowded
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
. There are 3 water-
mills. Track is easy-going, 15' to 20' wide,
enters fertile Bishewa Valley, 6 miles wide. At
7Jthe Mian Gul .pass, gradient level, pass 100
yards wide. Then turn north-west; road a good
broad track. At 11| cross the Elwand Eiver by 2-
arched stone bridge 20' wide. River is a rapid
stream, not fordable, 50 yards wide, between banks
of earth 25' to 30' high. 300 houses and a small
square fort, easily commanded.
From Siripul to Kasr-i-Shirin is 6 miles, and the
remaining stages to Bagdad from Kasr-i-Shirin
are Khanikin, Kizil Robat, Sharaban, Bakouba,
Bagdad. They are well known as being the
main caravan route from Bagdad into Persia.
Vide Eoute No. 7.
Karind to Siripul is usually accomplished in one
stage.
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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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