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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [38] (63/122)
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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38
EouteNo. 20.
F rom M osul to K hanikix.
Authority and date—As far as Kifri, Gerard, 1882 ; Kifri to Khanikin
Kiepert^s Map, 1884.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istance iir
miles,
Inter
mediate.
Kifei
Kushk'i-Zenq-
Zengbabad ..
Khanikin
15
10
10
Total.
15
25
35
R emakks.
See Route No. 30 for stages from Mosul to Kifri.
Kifri to Khanikiu is 3 staores.
Eoute No. 21,
From Bashkala to Urumiah via Gavar.
Authority and date. —Maunsell, 1 BBS.
D istance in
No.
miles.
of
stage.
Name of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
Saedeean
23
Diza
31
23
51
R emaeks.
Bro&d gravelly track. At 6 miles cross ravine
with large stream. At 9 miles a flat cultivated
terrace along the Zab. Valley about 1 mile broad.
At 111- miles cross another ravine near village
Kattibava. Zab is known here as the Albak Su.
At 16| miles road to Julamerk. At 19| miles
ford Zab, 60 yards wide, 2 feet deep. At 23
^miles Sarderan, small Kurdish village.
General direction south-south-east. At
miles cross Mashiro stream ; several villages.
Steep ascent. Water supply and good grass
abundant. At 11 miles long descent, the last
part being steep. At 12| miles the Mihaila Ga-
vari stream, 60 yards wide and 3 feet to 4 feet
deep. Road up right bank ; easy path for mules.
At 17 miles the valley widens. At 18 miles
wooden bridge, strong, 30 feet span. River is
quite unfordable anywhere. Reach G-avar plain.
Broad easy track to Diza, 700 houses, 1 battalion.
Plain is 20 miles long by 8 wide with a dozen
poor villages.
General direction north-east by caravan route to
Urumiah. From here the stagres are the same as
Route 26.
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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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