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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎32r] (68/739)

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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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13
No. 11— concld.
Asolat to Firuzkuh, vicL Ash and Arjumand.
No.
Distances
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Eemaeks.
7
Ask
25
129
Down the Lar and past the Safed Rud and Dalichai,
beyond which, river is known as the Haraz.
Road lies on left hank for a couple of miles from
Dalichai, and then diverges, one branch goin^ to
Pnl-i-Palar, the other on left, a mere track, join
ing high road from Damavand to Amul. The
Haraz flows through a narrow chasm, the sides
of which, under Damavand, are about 1,200' high.
Road, after it joins high road, is, of course, fairly
good, and about 16 1 wide, but the gradients are
too steep for cart traffic. Prom 7,500 the road
drops to 6,300' in less than 3 miles. A path,
steep and bad, now winds down into a ravine,
crosses a stream, and keeps along left bank of
the Haraz, at a dizzy height above it, and then
gradually descending through fields, gardens, and
orchards, reaches Ask, famous for its sulphur
baths. There is no good camping-ground, and
ReEna or Ira, 3 miles further, would be better
for encamping. A single arch bridge of 22' span
here crosses the river. Supplies procurable.
8
Lesin
8
137
An hour's climb, by very steep path up cliffs over,
hanging the Haraz on its right bank, then through
flat and cultivated ground to Ira, a village of 200
houses. From Ira the road ascends to 9,20u', and
then descends to Lesan, a village of 150 houses.
9
Aejumand
22
159
Up valley which varies from | to 1 mile in width
and is cultivated At 1^ miles pass the Engam or
valley on right, from which flows a stream. Still
going east, road, which is practicable for field guns,
ascends to the watershed, 9,750'. Then descends,
past several villages,—Zirmand, Najafdard,
Dehan Asu, and Underia, situated on the banks
of a torrent locally known as the Nimrud, which
ultimately flows into the plains about Lasgird.
There is a narrow cultivated strip of land on both
banks. Asu is a better halting place than Arju-
mand, which is 1| miles off the road to the left.
It stands on a small eminence surrounded by-
bare hills.
10
E' ibuzkuh
••i
Along banks of Nimrud pastSilivan, a small village
at point where Nimrud trends south, then od to
Larim and across Piruzkuh plateau to Piruzkuh.
Telegraph Office and Post house. Supplies scarce.

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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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