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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [61] (86/122)
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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CI
R oute N o. 35— conid.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istance iit
miles.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
S emaeks.
Kueujuk
Hassan Kala...
kifpri xeni...
Yuzveben
Delibaba
121
12^
11
121
22^
331
46
57
Orkhanieh and cross plateau gently rising for 1J
miles. Then descend by easy gradient between
the forts commanding the front of Deveh Boyun
position to the Passin plain, where there is a khan
and the shallow Nebi Chai is forded. Then cross
the well-cultivated plains on which there are
many araba tracks to
Kurujuk, a small village of 50 houses. Up to this
point the road in most parts is a wide chausee.
Then continue across plains for 9 miles to ford
of Nebi Chai, here at times a wide-flooded
stream. Reach
Hassan Kala. From Hassan Kala there are two
routes of some importance, one leading north
east to Neriman ; the other, crossing the Neb-
Chai by a bridge, runs southward over the plain
to Khinis and Mush. Owing to the narrowing of
the plain at Hassan Kala the position is impor
tant. From this point the road continues east
wards over the plains, passing numerous villager;
gradually the level ground contracts till it is only
a mile wide at
Kiupri Keni. A mile beyond this village is reach
ed the Choban Kinpri or bridge over the Araxes
(here also called Bingueul 8u), just below the
point where the Nebi Chai joins it. The bridge
is of stone, with six solid arches, and is 90 yards
long, the left bank being considerably higher.
The river is here a broad clear swift stream, sel
dom, if ever, fordable ; it runs in a depression 150
feet below r the plateau on either side and | to 1
mile wide. The road, still running eastwards,
crosses a plateau practicable in all directions ex
cept in wet weather. There are some steep places
at the crossings of the small streams. The vil
lages of Omrakom, an important Turko-Persian
place, Minduvan, and Kumatser (a large Christian
village) are passed and the road reaches
Yuzveren, an Armenian village with 40 houses,
w here there is a bridge over a small stream. From
Omrakom and Yuzveren carriageable routes lead
over the hills to the south into the valley of the
Sharian Su turning the Eshek Elias or Delibaba
pass. Beyond Yuzveren the ground becomes
much more hilly, several streams are passed, and
the Delibaba valley is entered, the road turning
south-eastwards to near
Delibaba. The village of Delibaba is 1| miles
north-east of the road. From here an important
track leads to the frontier post of Kara Kilissa
on the Araxes. The road now follows the Dtdi-
baba gorge in a southerly direction. After about
3 miles a route turns off to the left, which turns
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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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