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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [26] (51/122)
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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26
R oute
No. 16— contd.
No.
of
stage.
D istance in
miles.
Names of stages
Inter
mediate.
Total.
R emarks.
10
11
12
)3
L izan
M iniani
A mrah
T abaspino
ZoMA S DWARRI .
Itha Valley ...
rolled amid impractical)le precipices 1,000 feet
below.
As we opened upon the valley of Lizan a most in.
teresting scene presented itself. Before us was
an alpine ran^e of limestone rock, stretching east-
nortb-east and west-south-west, with lofty preci
pices fronting west. There was one gap in this
rampart through which the Zah found its way.
There are several roads from Lizan to the Hakkiari
country, but all of them have to compass the
ascent of the great limestone range east of the
valley. One of them is carried over the side of
the Tsaria Mount, east of the Zab, but is not
accessible by mules; all the rest present great
difficulties.
We proceeded up the valley of the Izani; passing
the village of Miniani (divided into two parts
about a quarter of a mile from one another); and
3 miles from the same place the village of Amrah,
I mile beyond which was Zawaitha.
Beypnd Lizan the valley begins to rise, but above
this is a shelving portion of declivity which is
everywhere cultivated. In the middle of the
valley the cultivation and cottages are mostly on
the south side.
At Amrah we commenced the ascent of the moun
tain. In one hour's time we reached the foot of
the diffs, and then turned along the face of the
precipices near its foot. The road was very bad;
at length we reached the gap in the rocks.
The crest of the Kuriki (the mountain we were now
crossing), leaving Ashitah to the left (or west),
was 7,652 feet in elevation. The descent was
still steeper than the ascent. Reached Taraspino,
a lar^e village at the foot of the mountain.
The guides declaring that this was a bad village,
we moved on for another range, and gained the
crest^ after an hour. We then continued along
the side of the hill, above the valley of the Zab,
and came to a summer pasture, called Zoma iSu-
warri (7,169 feet).
There is a road across the mountain at a lower level
than the one we were at present following, but it
is only available at a short season of the year.
The prospect from here was grand, the scenery
bold and various.
Our road still lay along the side of the mountain;
snow more abundant, and the slopes often very
steep. We got down to the valley of Itha by
means of a glacier, or snow patch, about a mils
in length by 300 yards in width. There are three
villages in the valley-Itha, Pir Be'.a, and
Galitha.
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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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