'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [36r] (76/739)
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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21
No, 19— contd.
Astrabad to Tehran, via Chahardeh, Samnan, fyc.
No.
of
stage.
D istances
in miles.
Names of stages.
I
nterme-
diate.
Total.
R emaeks.
2
M aqassi
16
32
Eoad for about a mile from village lies over wide,
grassy lawns, on slopes of lower hills ; from #
there, is a good view of the desert and the south
east corner of the Caspian. It then enters forpst,
and keeps along edge of a precipice nearly 100
feet high overhanging a ravine, at the bottom of
which is the stream, which passes Miandara. On
left is steep side of a hill, thickly clothed with
forest. In an hour's travelling bed of river is
reached, in which road continues for about a mile
and-a.half, and then commences an ascent,
most painful and difficult for horses, which is
all but impracticable from slipperiness. Reached
a level space, about four miles from the summit of
the mountains, at a sufficient height above the
sea for the snow to lie. Above, high masses of
rock, covered with snow, rose like an impassable
barrier. Path was difficult. Near top there was
half a foot of snow on the ground. At last
attained the summit, and commenced a gradual
descent by a broad, dry, and well-beaten road.
The country presented a very different aspect to
that lately traversed, for tl»e hills were now half
bare, merely dotted here and there with a few
stunted firs. Continued the descent along a deep
and narrow valley and arrived at some caves in
the side of the mountain. There are several of
them of sufficient extent to accommodate some 20
or 30 horses. The place is called Magassi ; a
clear rivulet flows near at hand, and it is a con
venient halting place for muleteers between Mian
dara and Chahardeh, being nearly equi-distant
from both.
3
C hahaedeh
16
:
go
After about a mile, turned east over a level plain
where in summer the Governor of Astrabad en
camps. A small stream of delicious water runs
through it.
About half a mile farther, turned at a right angle
into another plain, which gradually narrowed into
a valley, and terminated in a steep, rocky pass.
The road lay over this, and about three-quarters
of a mile on the other side, entered a curious
defile, about three yards broad, the rocks rising
on each side 50 or 60 feet perpendicularly, like
immense walls, called the Shamshirbur. A
small stream flows through it, now frozen ; great
difficulty in getting through the pass. The
whole length of the defile is not more than 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).
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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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