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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [30] (55/122)
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. \§~~concld.
From Tabriz to Salmas Fraser gives the following information (IS 34)
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istawcb in"
MILES.
D iza K halil ...
T esuj
S almas
Inter
mediate.
Total.
Bemabes.
Rode by the village of Magan, and pushed on from
there to .Diza Khalil, a thriving village with
orchards and gardens. It occupies the borders
of a mountain stream from the range on the
north of Lake Urumiah (Shahi), and covers an ex
tensive tract.
The whole of the district from Tabriz is one sheet
of cultivation; it abounds with fine village and
gardens.
One way lay through the district and plain of
Salmas, one of the finest in Azerbaijan. The
plain itself extended about 30 miles inland from
the lake, and in some parts may be 10 miles
across.
Route No. 17.
From Mosul to Van via Sert.
Authority and Bell and Maunsell, 1888.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istance in
miles.
Inter
mediate.
M osul
Total.
Eemakks.
These routes lead for the most part through the
heart of Kurdistan, and through a mountainous
difficult country, in which military operations
could only be conducted on a small scale. This
is especially the case in the Zab basin, the routes
from Amadia to Julamerk, from Rizan on the
Zab to Neri, and from Amadia to Rawanduz
being in many places awkward even for past
transport. The upper basin of the Khabur is
sunk deep among rugged mountains, and is most
difficult of access from all sides. The same is
the case with the upper Hazil basin. Routes
across the Nestorian districts of Baz, Diz, Chab,
and Oramur are extremely difficult, even for
pack animals.
After crossing the Tigris bridge, turns north, and
after a mile cross the Khazir stream by a bridge
0 ^. masonry arches, river usually fordable,
skirt ruins of Nineveh, pass village of Hadiye
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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)
- 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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