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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [85] (110/122)
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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85
R oute
No. 45— conicl.
No.
of
stage.
Name of stages.
Distance in
miles.
Inter
mediate
Total.
Remarks.
13
K haseabad
24
236|
14
S eea A gach ...
15
SUNGAE
28;
29i
288f
Direct caravan route from Bejar to Karmanshah
leaves town south 8° west, and winds through
defile enclosed bj low, rugged, limestone hills.
At f mile enter defile known as the Tang-i-Kalija,
and proceed over rough, narrow, and tortuous
path to crest of pass known as Gardan-i-Alaka-
bud, \\ miles ; ascent 550 feet, enclosing heights
100 to 200 feet, steep and rockj but accessible.
Thence, sharp descent of 50 feet t<> plain.
At 3J miles reach village Alakabud, 60 houses, and
descend easy, open ridge flanked by deep ravines.
At 7| miles reach village and mud fort Chihl Ami-
ran, 30 houses ; road narrow but easily improve-
able, following narrow glen enclosed by slopes
under 50 feet.
At 10 miles reach Tamaras Eud, brook draining
to Kizil Ozan ; road good and open total de
scent 800 feet.
Crossing brook, ascend over gently undulating
country, and at 12^ miles reach elevated plateau
of volcanic rock with steep rocky scarps; total
descent 300 feet ; road good.
Crossing plateau, at 14^ miles descend sharp
incline 200 feet ; road narrow but easily im
provable, slopes being easy and of soft rock (clays
and marls).
At 16 miles, cross small brook, village Kharzain,
40 houses, | mile right ; total descent 475 feet.
Thence, traversing easy undulating country over
good road, pass Chashma Khalil, 10 houses, at
18| miles, and at 24 miles reach Khasabad,
large village of 300 houses, watered by stream
flowing east.
Road throughout practicable for guns, or easily
improveable.
From Khasrabad, pass south over easy undulations
to the Katchigird stream, fordable and with
sound bottom, 8 miles ; new
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
and
hamlet Sharvek, 5 houses, left of road ; Abbas-
abad, 15 houses, \ mile left front.
Thence, over level plain to Deh Ali Verdi, 50
houses, at 12 miles.
At 13| miles, over good level road pass Aliabad,
10 houses ; and at 15| miles, Yalghuz Aghach,
50 houses.
At 21i miles, cross high road, Teheran to Sehna ;
at 23i miles, reach Sera Aghach, 60 houses, on
banks of marshy stream.
"Road throughout good.
From Sera Aghach, bear south-south-west across
level plain to gap in high ridge running from
north-west to south-east.
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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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