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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [18] (43/122)
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. 13.
F rom M osul to K armanshah.
Authotity and dale — B ell, 1884.
No.
D istance ur
miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Inter-
oiediate.
Total.
E bmaeks.
Kalak Feeby...
erbil
Ashkafsaka
Khoi Sanjak
Bogdt
33
33
21
21
25
24
64
75
100
Khana-i-Miean
25
124
149
Cross the bridge of boats. Road a broad claj track
passing several mounds and villages, over culti
vated plain with some grass. Ford a river known
as the Ghazier, 100 yards wide and 2| deep, 3 miles
an hour, pebbly bed. Descend into Zab Vallfty,
At 83 miles arrive at Zab passage at Kalak ferry.
River is 150 yards, current 3 or 4 miles an hour.
There are two small ferry-boats. In summer the
river can be forded.
Road over grassy undulations along the river, cross
ing many dry water-courses and passing many
villages to Erbil. Erbil has 2,000 houses. There
is a ferry at Guirdamamish, 8 hours distance (I
boat). There are no other ferries on the Zab t
Muddy clay road 30' wide. Then up bed of stream,
entering low grassy hills. Here and there are
steep gradients. Road is very undulating, but
carts could use it if the muddy stretches were met
alled. Track continues of the same character to
Ashkafsaka.
Up r .wampy valley crossing small streams. At 2^
miles begin to ascend by track 2' wide, but easy
for mules, then over undulating country with a
swampy stream in every hollow. At 10| miles
the road is a bad mule-track, country cut up by
ravines, and plentiful streams every of a mile.
Pass Topsava with a fort. Khoi Sanjak has
about 2,000 houses.
Alternative road to Suleimania bearing 130°. Road
followed bears 150°.
Road runs over numerous ravines and streams,
good and broad in places : in others a mere ledgy
mule-track 2' wide. Pass 5 or 6 villages, and
descend by gradient of \ into valley of Lesser Zab
to Bogut (Kurd village).
Road continues to plunge in and out of ravines.
At 6 miles descend to village of Kurkusmuk by
gradient of i to ^
At 9 miles cross lower Zab by ferry. Stream is
100 yards wide, 5' deep, current 3 or 4 miles an
hour. The ferry consists of 1 raft of 15 inflated
skins. Mules can ford here in June and even
in October. Then a good hard road up a broken
valley, with some v^ry severe gradients in cross
ing: ravines. Valley is very fertile and well wooded
and watered. Oaks are plentiful. Thence over a
grassy swampy plain 4 miles broad to Khana-i-
Miran.
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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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