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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [31v] (67/739)
The record is made up of 1 volume (367 folios). It was created in 1898. 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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12
No. 11.
Asoiat to Firuzkuh, via,
Authority —Lotett.
No.
of
stage.
D istances
in miles.
K emaeks.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
1
Aesinkieu
25
25
Through English-looking forest oaks and green
sward, at an elevation of about 4,000'; then down
about 1,200' to valley of stream that flows from
Firuzabad, a ruined village at foot of Kuh-i-Palar.
Past prosperous village of Dasht-i-Nazir alon^
Puhl river to Arsinkiru.
2
Mekhsas
5,5UO'.
8
33
Through populous village of Puhl, across a wide,
cultivated plain, and over a ridge of limestone
into Largan valley. Valleys about here are wiue,
well-cultivated, and irrigated.
3
Oz
12
45
From Mekhsas road ascends to 10,000' by a
tolerable path, baggage animals taking about
3 hours to reach the top. Descent is then made
to Oz in the Nur valley (about 500 inhabitants).
4
Baladbh
6,800'.
15
60
Down Nur river, road in parts being very bad.
There is a continuous breadth of cultivation the
whole way ; but villages are few, Yush being
the most considerable. Valley here is narrow be
tween high and steep cliffs. Past Urmsi, road
debouches into a larger valley about 2 miles wide
by 4 long, formed by junction of a river from
the south, which, with other tributary streams,
makes the Nur a river of some importance.
Baladeh is a large village with 1,000 inhabitants
and several fine gardens.
5
Ghashma Shahi
30
90
A long trying march. Road lies along bank of
Yalu river; at 5th mile passes Kalwak. Eiver
valley is here much hemmed in by bare bills.
At 9th mile pass Mireh, 50 houses (7,600');
following the valley through corn-fields, reach
Yalu, a thriving village, 150 houses (12 miles).
From Yalu, road, which is very badly designed,
ascends to 9,200' by a steep and narrow gorge, 4
miles long ; still gradually ascending, road at
length passes through an opening in a natural
wail of rock, about 20' wide, known as the Palang
Darwaz; 2 miles further on, the
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
is
reached at a height of 11,100'.
6
Khan Lar Khan
14
104
Down wide and flat valley of the Lar.
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The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia. Section III. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India (Simla: printed at the Government Central Printing Office, 1898).
The volume contains details of all land routes (numbered 1-247) in Persia starting from Russian territory and extending south as far as a line drawn from Karmanshah [Kermānshāh] south-eastwards through Burujird [Borūjerd], Isfahan [Eşfahān] and Yazd to Karman [Kermān], and thence north-east to Khabis [Khabīş] and Neh to Lash Juwain [Lāsh-e Juwayn].
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, agriculture, condition of roads, access to water, supplies of wood, and other routes).
An appendix within the volume (folios 356-359) and two separately-stored sets of loose sheets (containing routes numbers 77 (a) and 140-A, folios 363-369) give information too late for incorporation in the body of the work.
The volume also contains pockets attached to the front and back inside covers for maps. These consist of an index map showing the limits of each of the three sections of Routes in Persia (folio 2) and an index map to the routes in Section III (folio 361). There is also a fold-out map of the route from Seistan [Sīstān] to Mashad on folio 232.
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 (367 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains an alphabetical cross index (folios 6-17), and an alphabetical index to names of places (folios 18-25).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates on the last page of the loose supplementary sheets (found in the small grey folder within the main folder); 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.
Pagination: the volume also contains a printed pagination sequence.
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