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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [21] (46/122)
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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21
Route No. 15.
JT osul by R awanduz and S u B ulak to T abriz.
Authority and date — G erard, 1882.
No,
..f
stage.
Names of stages.
Mosul
sebil
Deea
Distance in
miles.
Inter
mediate.
55
16
H eeash
Total.
55
71
14
85
Bemabks,
The rotite from Mosul is the same as No. 13 to
Erbil. Beyond this first 12 miles low, undulating,
and chiefly cultivated ground, bare und treeless,
gradually approaching the high chain of moun
tains on the right. About 3 miles Christian
village, An eh aw a, 2 miles on left, and 10 miles
through Bahirka, 11 miles dry bed of Bussora,
and at 12 miles sm^ill village of Dumwach,
and enter gorge of low gravel hills. After a mile
ascend to 1,950 feet, see utter change in scenery,
perfect sea of rough broken earth scraps, with
hiawling tiout streams, oak copse beginning to
show, and castle of Dera 3 miles aheiid. Steep
ascenft of 300 feet, fair going thence, wind up
small glens with clear running water and some
ni^e patches of copse on banksj oleanders and.
long grass, to
Dera. Hence perpetual ascents and descents ;
splendid! wild stony ^ country with babbling
brooks, wild roses, raW scrub, and deep ravines.
About S miles into bed of large stream, which
togethei' with a couple of small villages, one ruin
ed, ah old castle on a craggy peak, and a razor,
backed marble range, through a gorge of which
the track turns off, are all called^Duni. The
ravines along foot of this range are particularly
bad, and the marble boulders in gorge, where the
only track is in bed of stream, so slippery as to
be most dangerous riding for 100 yards. Thence
bfar more north-east, skirting stream, a good
many oaks about and slopes becoming easy and
gentle, and about 11 miles cross saddle, Bahiajijek
of over 2,000 feet, thexice descend through oak
copse and scrub to
PTerash, a Souchi village, belonging to the Dera
Chief. After about a fnile, easy ascent up ravine
on to plateau downs, and 4 miles cross them
east to Esh Handil, small river. The valley
betwixt range crossed last night, and mountains
to north, runs e^st and west. This range conti
nues east for about 9 miles, where if joins another
running morendrth and south and which the Ea-
wanduz road crosses. Two small villages on Esh
Handil, and commence gradual ascent towards
range above mentioned. Fair lot of cultivation,
ground very h^avy and stofay. About 9 miles,
1,900 feet, comtoeKce real ascent, marble rock
with no find of niud. About 10 miles after a zigzag
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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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