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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [45] (70/122)
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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45
Route No. W—contd.
,——
■■ — —— —1
D isjpaitcb in"
miles.
No.
of
Names of stages.
E emabks.
stage.
Tuter-
mediate.
Total.
which is difficult; hut for this arahas could get
as far as Selmnis. There is plenty of water on
this route and some supplies should be obtainable ;
no wood except near Kochannes. This report is
taken from one by Captain Clayton of 1882.
Mr. Devej deFcribes a somewhat different route
between the Khushab ■ and the crossing of the
Botan Su, apparently going more to the right.
The country traversed till the Zab basin is reach
ed is open and fairly easy with good summer
pastures, frequented by Kurdish nomads in the
summer. Asa rule, this route would be followed
in proceeding from Van to A madia or vice versa.
Eoute No. 28.
The Van-Kotur route is much frequented, and that by Bashkala and Diza to Crumiah is
also of importance (Route 26). But the Hakkiari country is so difficult that any tracks
south of the line Mervanen—Julamerk—Diza are useless from the military point of view
and inconvenient as commercial highways. The most usual routes from Van to the Tigris
are those by the south shore of the lake to Bitlis, and thence to Jazirah or else by Shattak
and Shernakh.
F rom V an by K otur ( P ersia) and K hoi to T abriz.
Authority and date — B ell, 1885.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istance in
miles.
E emaeks,
Inter
mediate.
Total.
1
2
Van
Eechek
Askara
• • •
18
15
• ••
18
33
Erchek. Eoute runs up an open valley. At 6
miles cross the Mahmejik stream, which runs into
Lake Erchek, easy country as far as
Askara, small village, continue up the valley
which narrows gradually to a gorge ; after 4 miles
Mulla Hassan is passed, and the route takes a
direction a little north-east across plateau that
separates the Mahmejik Valley from that of the
upper Mahmud Su and that of the Kotur Chai;
route soon turns east, and after 6 miles passes
Karkarli and descends a valley sinking east.
Cross undulating country, passing villages of As-
turji (a malarious place owing to swamps) and
Mahmudallah, in the Upper Mahmud Su basin to
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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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