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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [76] (101/122)
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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76
Route No. 43.
FllOM SULE1MANIA TO RAWANDUZ VIA RANIA.
Authority and date — M aunsell , 1888.
D istance iu
No.
miles.
H smabks.
of
stage.
1
Names of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
Yebankoz
18
Sabdasht
Dukham feery
Gtjinari
kan i a
G olan
Nalkewan Val
ley.
Rawanduz
16
13;
18
17
24*
17
15
20
34
47i
64 J
105 f
140i
At 4| miles ford Khanjim Eiver, 200 yards wide
and shallow. Broad track over plain. Yerankoz
is f miles off track ; 30 houses.
Good track, but narrow in places. At 4* miles pass
Karachatan, 150 houses. At 10|- miles Khan-i-
JViiran, ^0 houses in well cultivated valley. By
narrow ledge descend to Tabin stream. Ascend
on other side by narrow ledge. Steep zigzags,
then gradual ascent to Sardasht.
One hundrei houses with ruined masonry fort.
Over ridges and valleys with some cultivation and
many streams; then up very fertile, well-wooded
valley. At 10^ miles reach Lesser Zab, 200
yards wide with rapid current. At 131 reach
ferry on right bank, framework of reeds on 12
sheepskins. Rough hill track on the other side
to Gulnari, small village.
Gradual ascent over hilly country. At 31- miles
reach summit of a spur from which the valley ot*
the Zab, 30 miles by 10, is visible. At 5| miles
Torba village, 100 houses. Plenty of wheat and
orchards, descend into plain of Zab, splendid grass.
Road along river, 500 yards wide. Stream is 200
yards with rapid current. At llf miles ford
Khudran, 60 yards wide, 3 feet deep, strong cur
rent, only just fordable. At 17 miles village Baz*
mu/an. Rania has 300 houses.
Up valley of Sarkupan Su. At 6| miles vilhige
Berkhansed, 50 houses, 3 water-mills, irrigation.
At lof miles ford the stream, 20 yards wide, Ifoot
deep. At 13| miles village of Burzungeh. At
17| Golan, hamlet.
Ascend narrow valley, then over ridges and ravines.
At 9 miles summit of Gurmanjol Pass, gradient
of 30°. The pass is closed for 3 months by snow.
At 15 miles Nalkewau Valley, good camping
ground. No village.
Over rough hill-track with plenty of timber. At
9 miles Gurrawan, 50 huts, and cultivation, 2
mills. At 13 miles Fickead, 100 houses. Ford
stream 30 yards by 2 feet deep. Then down val
ley. Finally by slippery paved roads and narrow
zigzags descend to Rawanduz, 1,000 houses, 5,000
inhabitants, and Turkish garrison.
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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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