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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [‎77] (102/122)

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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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Route No. 44.
F rom T abriz to K hoi,
B y M aranp»
No.
D istance in
miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
R em;abks.
13 miles, north-west.
1
2
Sahalan
Sofian
13
12
13
25
After crossing the long bridge over the A ji Chai,
the road leaves the south road to Khoi.. This
village is in the midst of cultivation.
Noith-west.
17 miles, west-north-west; 42 miles*
3
4
5
6
7
Maeand
Khoshk-Serai .
Zanjibeh
V a LDIAN
Khoi
17
• • •
• 0 •
42
The road runs through a narrow valley, which is
in some places very swampy, until it expands into
the pasturage of Yam,
West. Koad skirts the plain of Marand.
West-south-west.
West. The road winds through wild and rude
mountains.
The road goes over a continuation of the above
mountains until it descends into the vale of Khoi.
This is an exceedingly well cultivated and popu
lated spot.
Route No. 45
From
Tabbiz to Karmanshah.
B y Binab and S ain K ala.
Authority and date- —Napier,
( 1875
No.
D istance in
miles.
R emarks.
of
stage
Names of stages.
Inter- 1
mediate.
Total.
1
Saedaeud
82
8|
From the " Ark,'' or citadel, in centre of Tabriz to
the south-western outskirts is a distance of about
2 miles, for most part through high-walled
gardens.
Clearing gardens, follow good wide track bearing
about west-south-west; low undulations of Koh
Sahend, distant on average 1 mile.

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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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