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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [89] (114/122)
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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89
12
E oute N o. 4i§~~contd,
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istance in -
miles.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
E bmaeks.
12
Choeoqh
20
18
14
Kamiean
Kaklassan
26
23
15
Kaemanshah
279
305
328
3461
Sehna ha 5,COO houses and about 25,000 inhab
itants. Garrison, 800 men.
Gradual descent over hilly country. At 4 miles
ford Ab-i-Sirwan, here called Eukma; most of
the water led away in irrigation-cuts. Road np
river. At 12 miles, branch off np valley of Gavar.
At 20 miles, Chorogh.
Easy road. At 12 miles, leave river np side valley.
At 19 J miles cross Mil-i-Mervarra pass. At 26
miles, Kamiran, large village.
Road across hills. At 7 miles, enter gap called Tang-
i-Kalashakani, and Rahzabar stream, difficult to
ford in spring. Then over hills. At 19| miles,
again strike Rahzabar stream. At 23 miles, vil-
of Kaklassan.
Good broad track to the Kara Su, 40 yards, 2 feet
deep, steep clay banks 15 feet to 20 feet. Then
over Karmanshah plain to Xarmanshah.
Eoute No. 47.
F rom S akiz to S ehna via D ivandeeeh.
Auilority and maunsell, 1888.
No.
of
stage.
Name of stages.
D istance in
miles.
B emaues.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
1
Telaku
20
20
2
Divandeeeh ...
20
40
\- This is the principal road and most used by cara
3
Baklabad ...
20
60
vans.
4
Sehna
20
80
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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)
- Arrangement
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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- 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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