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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [36v] (77/739)
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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No. 19—-co u td.
Astrabad 1o Tehran^ vtdL Chahardehy Samnan, fyc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
BEMiBES.
ATAIfU
20
Tuduvae
68
28
96
or 6^0 yards. On emerging, ascended a gentle-
elevation, and entered a countrj perfectly barren,
without so much as a bush. Continuing some
miles farther over low hills, came to Chahar-
deh.
Passing a mud Imamzada, which stands on the
confines of village, proceeded in a south-west
direction across a well-cultivated plain, watered
by several rivulets, and everywhere dotted with
remains of small round towers.
About three miles from village passed ruins of a
large, circular mud fort. Continued three or four
miles farther in the same direction, and then left
road, turning west over some low, barren hilfe>
crusted with soda, to Chashma-i-Ali.
The spring was situated about 7 miles from Cha-
hardeh, in a wild and desolate looking spot.
Continued march south and reached Kalata, a
village about three-quarters of a mile from the-
spring ; then turning south-west, entered a plain
surrounded by rocky mountains, and having the-
appearance of an immense basin. Towards the
south-east signs of cultivation wpre visible ; but
by far the greater part was a waste, barely afford
ing subsistence to a few flocks of sheep. Aftex^
crossing the plain, traversed some low hills and
arrived at Chashma-i-Ali.
Proceeding alternately over low hills and narrow
pluins, passed Astana, around which was a con
siderable extent of cultivated land. A few miles*
farther, reached the village of Baba Hafiz, en
closed within four walls, with towers at the-
angles, and looking like a square fort.
Continuing onward, crossed the Chashma-i-AIi
stream, and turning south, arrived at the village 1
of Ayanu.
After travelling about twoyctrsak/is through soli
tary valleys among the mountains, came to a
spring, from where Damghan and several sur
rounding villages were visible to the east on
edge of a vast salt plain, the commencenient of
the desert of Khorasan.
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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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