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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [82] (107/122)
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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82
R oute N o, 45—
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
i D istance in
miles.
R bmabks,
Inter
mediate
Total.
9
Tikantapa
27^
162|
f
At If miles enter hilly tract and bear away from
the Jaghatu, which also bends west towards Sakiz
village, and district of Kurdistan, distance 30
miles.
At 5 2 miles commence ascent, passing over spurs
of Marmar Dagh, considerable mountain east of
Sain Kala.
At 6 miles reacb hamlet Khoj Ali, 400 feet above
the Jaghatu ; ascent easy, road good, commanded
by accessible heights of 200 to 500 feet.
Thence continue to ascend over ridge and hollow to
Kizilkabar, 40 houses, 9f miles, about 900 feet
above the Jaghatu ; rood good, but winding and
broken by steep pitches ; commanded to left hand
by heights of 400 to 1,000 feet ; right, open
plateau.
Road turns off left to Turki Wairan, large villao-e.
distant 2 miles.
From Kizilkabar, descend over sharp undulations |
mile to Kara Chai, small stream flowing north
west to join the Jaghatu.
Thence follow up left bank of stream through
narrow^ defile, road in parts very narrow, but
easily improveable ; heights on either hand pre
cipitous and inaccessible, 600 to 800 feet.
At 13^ miles, cross stream by sound masonry
bridge, 15 feet wide, and bend south-west up
narrow glen to village Sanjud, 30 houses (14|
miles).
Koad narrow and tortuous, but easily improveable ;
heights on either hand receding easily and
accessible.
5| hours.
From Sanjud follow glen south and south-east
by narrow winding path, commanded by crest uf
plateau, 300 to 620 feet.
At 1^ miles emerge on open plateau seamed with
deep ravines, draining west and south into the
Saruk tributary of Jaghatu, east and north into
the Kara Chai ; ground for a couple of miles on
either hand practicable for cavalry or guns.
1 hence ascend by easy gradients to 10 miles,
and skirting culminating heights commanding
road 400 to 600 feet (total height from Sanjud
1,100 feet), descend along narrow ridge with
sharp fall on either hand, 400 feet, to Mahibulak,
8 houses, 12| miles ; road good and slopes every
where accessible.
1 hence descend over sharp undulations to glen of
Gen Aghatch, village of 40 houses. 1 mile right,
400 feet, 14f miles.
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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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- 'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.'
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