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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [92] (117/122)
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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92
R oute N o. 50— contch
No.
of
sta^e.
Names of stages.
D istance in
miles.
E bmarks.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
12
13
Salihabad
Dizful
isi
153i
157
Infested by robbers, who imitate the cry of
jackals to distract attention.
Height 1,175 feet. Half-way, cross the Bala Rud.
Leaving Luristan, enter the plain of Khuzistan.
Here are six regiments and six guns. A fine
bridge of 22 arches spans the river at Dizful.
From Dizful to Ispahan caravans go in 12 days.
Roads mountainous and stony.
Merchandise is conveyed at IJ to 2J Icrans per
man. The overland route to Bagdad is of 14
stages, but very precarious.
Dizfulio Shuster is 41 miles south-south-east;
at Sfarsalchs (171 miles), pass Konah, a village
of 50 houses. Eest of route is impassable after
rains, the whole country becoming flooded.
Shuster has 7,000 inhabitants. Three-fourths of
the town is in ruins. When there is much water
small vessels pass up the Karun as far as Shus
ter, Small steamers can pass to Ahwaz.
Caravans go to Behehan in 8 days, but the route
is rather difficult.
Communications with Mohammera by river, up
stream about 10 days, and down 6 or 7 days.
From Dizful to Faleeyah, near Mohammera, is
about 198 miles.
From Khoremahad to the Shat-el-Arah is about
356 miles.
Goyt. C. Press, Simla.-No. C-22 Q. M. I. B.-3M0-95.-10O.
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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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