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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [79] (104/122)
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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79
E oute N o . 45— conhh
No.
of
ftage.
Names of stages.
D istance iit
miles.
R emabks.
Inter
mediate
Total.
4
BiNAB
12?
681
At nnles enter defile commHnded by steep
ciests of 50 to J00 feet: path narrow, but pass
able for guns.
At miles clear defile and traverse open plateau
draining north-west and south-west into Lake
Uruuiiah.
At 6 miles cross low ridge and descend by easy
gradients.
At 8 miles emerge on plain opening on lake lying
2 miles right.
At 10J miles pass village Khanian, 40 houses, and
enter glen commanded by low easy hills.
At 12| miles cross low rid ore anj descend over
undulating plateau to small stream flowing into
lake ; road from Khanian comes in alono- stream
on right rear.
At 15J miles pass small guard-house and follow
glen commanded by low hills, l ')0 to 600 feet.
At 16i miles cross low ridge into glen draining
soufh-west into lake.
At 18| miles cross spur south of stream and de
scend into cultivated open plain, 19| miles.
Alternative road turns off left, clinging to hill-
skirt, and passing through Khanagha joins lower
road some miles on.
Thence 3 miles to Ajnkshehr, large village of 300
houses with extensive gardens.
Koad throughout practicable for guns, or easily
improveable.
6 hours.
Leave Ajakshehr and bear south-east across culti
vated plain.
At half mile cross the Kara Chai, small stream flow
ing in wide bed with perpendicular banks 10 to
12 feet high, gravelly bottom.
At IJ miles pass through village Tappa, 15 houses,
and bear east^ to foot of hills; road from Kha
nagha comes in left rear.
Thence, skirting hills closely, pass at 3f miles
village Khudaru, 50 houses, on cultivated plaia
extending to shore of lake, distant 1| miles.
At 5 miles leave hill-skirt and enter wide expanse
of pasture and mud flats ; road to town of Mara-
gha, distant 10 miles, turns off left.
At 7^ miles over flats crossed by paved cause
way 20 feet wide ; depression filled in spring by
water of lake, and difficult to pass at all tunes
after rain.
At 8| miles 'pavement ends and track continues
on low embankment.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (57 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains an alphabetical cross index (folios 5-7); and an alphabetical index to names of places (folios 8-10).
- Physical characteristics
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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- 'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:16, 1:94, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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