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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— contd.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istance in
miles
Inter
mediate.
Total.
10
11
12
13
14
StTLEIMANIl ...
M ohuk
Halabja
Nausud
Disher
Pawar
.VTar-i-Kharwar
Aga Hassan's
village.
24
25
20
23
21
24
22
173
198
218
241
. 262
270
294
E emakks.
Road rises over an elevated grass plateau, with
steep desscents and ascents into and out of hollows.
Pass many streams and villages. The road is a
good firm broad track, but swampy in the hollows.
The country is fertile and cultivated. Telegraph
line on the right, so to Suleimania. Suleimania
has 2,800 houses and considerable trade.
Road good, 18' wide, but very undulating up
valley to Mohun. Many villages are passed and
water is plentiful. Mohun is a villiage of a few
huts.
Up the valley, along the stream, 100' wide, in gra
velly bed, 3' deep, crossing several muddy tribu
taries, one being 40' wide and 8' deep. The
country is all good pasture ; the valley is about
5 miles wide. Plenty of good horses and cattle.
The river is known as the Zelmrud. Halabja has
only 3 good houses.
Undulating road over fine country passing several
villages. Plenty of scrub, oak, and mulberry
timber. The road is only a mule-track. A steep
descent, gradient -J to f, leads down to Nausud, a
large village. Road is good up to this point.
Road becomes a mule-track, going over huge ravines
2,000 or 3,000 deep, with rounded slopes. Good
grazing for sheep. Cross the Sirwan River, 50
yards wide and very rapid; only centre arch of
bridge exists, and the approaches to it are difficult.
Road then goes up stream. Several villages are
passed. The hills get higher and higher. De
scend by good mule-track 2' to 4' wide to Disher,
150 nouses. Sheep are abundant here.
Along a good made road, ascending a valley, and
crossing the stream several times. Sheep are
numerous.
Pa war or Pava has 300 houses and about 2,000
sheep.
Road up the same valley, 1| miles broad, but gradu
ally contracting. Then over head of valley and
over an undulating plateau with some steep ascents
and descents. Some of the valleys are swampy,
Mar-i-Kharwar is only a cave in the hill-side.
Undulating road up valley. Road is 10'wide and
in excellent order; then over undulating plateau,
passing several villages. There are a good many
cattle.
Then descend into river valley to Rawansir, 100
poor huts. The valley is 3 miles broad and cul
tivated. Stream is 100' wide and 2' 6" deep,
flowing 3 miles an hour. Road at first swampy,
afterwards hard, on the hill-sides. Cultivation
along the river ; the rest is grass
scattered.
Villages are
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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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