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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [29] (54/122)
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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29
R oute N o. 16— conid*
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Distance in
miles.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
Bbuabes.
23
Bashkala
24 K anda K ilissa
25
26
27
28
29
S almas or D il-
man.
Salmas.
Tesuj.
D iza K haliiu
T abeix,
now tame and ronnded, and rising so little atove
the level of the upland, as to have the appearance
rather of hills than of mountains.
Meilawa was at an elevation of 6,418 feet.
Road still continued up the open valley of Zab ; 2J
hours brought us where two streams met: one,
from the mountains beyond Bashkala; the other'
from Kanda Kilissa. We soon came in view of
Bashkalah, about two miles to our left. It is a
large village, built round the base of a conical
hill, which supports a castle. It is said to con
tain 200 houses.
It is governed by an officer of the Beg of Jula-
merk, and is tributary to the
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
of Van.
Keeping still up the valley of the Zab, we came to an
ancient Armenian monastery. At this point the Zab
is divided into two streams, one of which comes
from the southern declivities of the Erdish
Tagh in the district of Albak, the other from
Koniyeh, Karasun, and Kashen.
Kanda Kilissa is a very old Armenian monastery.
We left the valley of the last tributaries to the
Zab, and entered upon a hilly country with occa
sional ravines. Crossed over a ridge, and descend
ed by Kbani Berin ; re-ascended amid rooky hills,
from whence we had our first view of the plains
of Salmas bearing due east.
Our descent from hence occupied 3 long hours, when
we reached some basaltic cliffs, which led directly
to the cultivated plain. Two more hours, amid
villages and gardens, brought us to the Chaldean
village of Khosrova.
This district of Salmas is covered with villages,
which have generally a common market, and the
whole is enclosed like a fort.
This place is designated sometimes Salmas, some
times Dilman, but is generally known in ordinary
parlance as " Shahr."
Note,— Distances in miles are not given, and only approximate times.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (57 folios)
- Arrangement
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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- 'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:16, 1:94, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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