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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [46] (71/122)
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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46
R oute N o. 28—
Distance iit
No.
miles,
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Inter-
mediate
Total.
Eemabks.
3
4
S ash
Shaeab Khana
20|
n
m
61
^ Sarai (6,800 feet). From Sarai the route runs
south-east, ascending over undulating country
and descending into a valley in which is
Sharab Khana. From here the route ascends the
valley of an affluent of the Kotur Chai south
east, and after 6 miles crosses a ridge. Descend
into the rocky valley of the Kotur Chai, which
coming from the west, rises several miles to the
south-west and is here a considerable stream ; it
flows east in a deep valley. Four miles further
pass
Razi, a small village. The frontier between Tur
key and Persia is aboujt here. The valley gra
dually opens out to
6
R a zi
9
70
f>
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Kotub
Khoi
\
Zanjieeh
Khoshk Seeai...
Maeand
SoFIAN
Sahalan
Tabeiz
H
381
17
16
10
17
12
13
73|
112
129
145
255
172
184
197
Kotur. From Kotur the route follows the valley
of the Kotur Chai to
Khoi.
Although this route is not used for wheels, it tra
verses easy country, and there are few points
between Yan and Kotur that could not be tra
versed by field artillery. Supplies are scarce after
leaving Erchek, but water is plentiful ; little fuel.
This report is taken from a reconnaissance by
Colonel Bell, 1885. It is not necessary to go as
far north as Sarai, although that is the usual route
followed ; a route runs almost due east from Mulla
Hassan, reaching the Kotur Chai Valley, near Tup
on the route from Sarai to Albak, and this is some
miles shorter than that taken ' by Colonel Bell,
which was also taken by Millingen. The Millan
Kurds are found about the upper valleys of the
Kotur Chai and of the Mermid Su.
It should also be noted that the shortest route from
Erzerum to Khoi would be by Kara Chobau-
Agantz.Peregri-Sarai,* and that artillery eould
pass by this route very nearly as easily as by
Alashkert and Kizil Diza. In winter, however,
the highlands between Peregri and the Kotur
Chai Valley are liable to intensely cold east winds,
and the snow often lies very deep.
Through the Khoi Valley. Then over wild and
rude mountains to Zanjiieh.
Road skirts the plain of Maraud.
Road over plain.
Through narrow valley, then over pasture land.
Through cultivation over plain to Tabriz.
Tabriz,
<
• i —r-
♦-Sce Route No. 28,
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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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