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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [34r] (72/739)
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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17
3
No. \k~contd.
Astrabad to Bujnurd, via the Atrah*
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
10
3 ed Camp or
the Dovoji.
Akottantm
1 ,200'.
Ament River..,
1,000'.
D istances
is" milbs.
Interme
diate.
TotaK
22
12
16
Gardan Chas-
mart.
3,200'.
128
140
156
22
178
Eemabks.
bitter. Continuing in similar country reaches,
after 6f hours, encampment of the Dovoji (20
alachuk).
After leaving village, track goes through confused
jumble of hills for 2 miles, and then reaches a
more open country.
Thence crosses the river : crossing very difficult
owing to depth and rapidity of stream : very steep
banks : then reaches a few alachuk. The bound
ary between the Astrabad and Bujnurd Govern
ments occurs near here in the district of Ganjai,
the district E. of which is called Shirlach.
The mountain to. N. of river is called Kuliatan.
Here a, road from north crosses the range and
joins in. It is a good deal used by Armenian
merchants. Curzon's statement (volume I, page
193) that the Russians have a road from Chik-
ishliar to Bujnurd is misleading, as although
such a route would be practicable in the dry
season,^ it is quite superseded by the Kizil Ar-
vat-Bujnurd road, both from its nearness, and
from the greater importance of Kizil Arvat as a
starting point.
The valley sensibly narrows and track keeps cross
ing low hills. At 3 2 miles reaches Akchanim
and further on^ Kalmuk Kala is visible, both
old forts in ruins built against the Turkomans.
This march is an easy one: camp among the
Gokhan Turkomans of the Khel Guzl Division.
Track leads up the Kotal-i-Hanaki; the going is
extremely steep, so much so that it is im
possible to ride. The snow lies from about half
way up. The top is 3,400' high. Looking N.
the country very much resembled the raised
plan of a hilly country, while to the east the
hills rose to about 4,000', and seemed to bar the
end of the valley. Looking to the south, count
less hillocks with snow on their northern slopes.
Then descend into a waterless and lifeless
country, until after seven hours riding, reach
a mud ruin of a fort called Ament, and giving
its name to the Ament River. Camped round
it, are some alachuk of Toktamash Goklars,
who came from Russia some three months
ago, to escape the Russian tyranny.
Road as before lay through a low hilly country,
waterless in summer, but covered with snow at
this period of the year. The ground gradually
rises until it strikes ih® dry bed of the Tucha,
reaching its top at ftbout 20 miles, at an altitude
of 3,600'.
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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.
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- 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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