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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [81] (106/122)
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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81
11
R oute N o . 45— contd.
No.
Names of stages.
Distance in
miles.
of
stage.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
Remarks.
Thence bend up valley, skirting hills to left closely.
At 12 miles pass hamlet Fara, 10 houses, and at
14<j miles, JMajar, 50 houses.
At 14| miles, cross wide gravelly bed of torrent,
draining lateral valley on left, and at 15 miles
reach Kashawar, large village, 100 houses, with
ruined mud fort on mound. Road throughout
good and practicable for wheels. Heights com
manding it, everywhere of easy slopes and acces
sible to infantry or light guns.
4 hours.
*
S ain K ala
14i
121
From Lailan there are two roads up valley of the
Jaghatu, one clinging closely to hill-skirt to left
of valley, usually taken by caravans in winter or
wet weather ; the other, more direct, taking nearly
centre of valley. The two join some miles higher
up.
Following direct road by good but devious path,
at two miles pass through hamlet Karajoi, 10
houses, and at 2J miles pass Azezkandi, 10 houses,
i mile left.
At miles reach small mound of volcanic rock, at
base of which lies hamlet Akhchala, 5 houses.
Thence on to hamlet Hoolakun, 10 houses, 5^ miles.
At 7 miles pass hamlet Yoongar, 8 houses, and at
Si miles reach hamlet Chichektu, 10 houses, with
new well-built mud fort having 4 solid flanking
towers and curtain walls of about 150 yards; a
side-road to Khatunabad and Bibikandi, large vil
lages of Afshar district, turns off to right front;
large village Kara Tapa, 1 mile left.
At 9 miles caravan road comes in left rear.
Thence, skirting low undulations on left hand,
at llf miles reach strong village of Mamajak
or Mahamadjuk, of 100 houses, commanded by
strong square fort with masonry flanking towers
on natural mound 60 to 70 feet high ; low heights
command fort at distance of 300 to 500 yards.
At 12| miles road contracted by low undulations
and river ; detour to left easily made.
Thence to Sain Kala, 144 miles, village of 100
houses.
Fort of Sain Kala, commanding village, stands on
high natural mound, and is strongly built, but
without water.
Road throughout good and practicable for wheels.
4J hours.
8
| S ANJUD
14
135
From Sain Kala, bear nearly due south to foot of
low hills enclosing valley to left.
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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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