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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [78] (103/122)
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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78
R oute N o . 45—
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istance iw
miles.
Inter
mediate
Total.
B buabss.
2
Gengan
26
34i
At 3J miles pass village Lala, | mile left. At 5
miles pass village Lawasan, 80 houses, J mile
left; gardens i raUe right; road touches hill
skirts.
Skirting hills closely, at 6 miles pass village Ah-
makia, on hill slope, 1 mile left.
At 7 miles cross^ low ridge (50 feet) which falls
away into plain, ^ mile right, and descend into
wide hollow filled with gardens and cultivation
of Sardarud.
At mijes passing through high-walled gardens
reach village of Sardarud.
Road throughout stony, but level and wide.
Two and a half hours.
Cross the Sardarud (dry for 8 or 9 months) by
stone bridge; pa-^s under mud fort Zalazil; and at
1? miles clear garden walls.
Bear south-west skirting hills.
At 2 miles road off left to Khosrushah.
At >2| miles large
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
; road thence lies
across level plain, at average distance from hill
skirts of 1 mile.
At 4f miles Yenkali, 40 houses, f mile right.
At 5^ miles Isferan, 100 houses, in glen 1 mile
left.
At 7^ miles cross road to Khosrushah, 1,000 houses,
2 miles left.
At 9f miles large
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
, Khosrushah ; vil
lage Tazakand, 1 mile in rear.
At 1.0f miles pass hamlet Shustar.
At 13 miles through large village Ilkhiji, 300
houses, extensive gardens.
A 14 miles touch hill-skirts.
At 151 miles, skirting hills closely over undulating
stony road, pass hamlet Kbasawan.
At 17 miles^ road oft left to Alamaghan and Do-
kharagan ; large villages lying in hill skirt left,
having respectively 500 and 800 houses.
Thence road lies across level grassy plain, stretching
from base of hills left to shore of Lake Urumiah^
15 to 20 miles right.
At 18miles road off right to hamlets below
Gengan.
At 24 miles reach Gengan, passing through gardens
for 1 mile. Hamlets and gardens extend right
and left for 3 or 4 miles.
Road throughout level and good. Water fre
quent.
Seven hours.
At 1 mile clear gardens of Gengan and follow
narrow devious track south through cultivated
valley, hills on left touching road.
3
AJAKSHEHE
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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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