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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [37r] (78/739)
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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23
Ko. 19— contd.
Asthabad to Tehran, via Chahordeh, Samnan, fyc.
No.
of
stage.
Distances
in miles.
Names of stages.
I
ntevme
diate.
Total.
R bmaeks .
Water was very ^ood. Continued route in a gen
eral west direction, through the same desolate
scenery of plains and mountains, without seeing
a single village or human being. The country
was perfectly clear of snow ; and the burning
sun, the brown soil, and scorched vegetation
gave one the idea of the close of autumn, rather
than the middle of winter. Tudawar is situated
in a long, narrow valley.
6
Ahuan
20
116
The scenery, the same as that of the previous day,
consisting of desert, plains, and mountains. No
villages ; but in one place, some miles to the
right of the road in the desert, the walls and
ruins of a few villages could be discerned.
Cf. Route No. 228, stage 7.
7
Samnan
30
146
Continuing march, generally west, but sometimes
winding round the bases of several excrescences
at foot of the mountains, passed ruined sarai,
and came to a fountain, almost midway between
Ahuan and Samnan, which seemed to be a.fre-
•quent halting place for muleteers. From this
fountain the road lay west through a series of
ravines formed by low hills, finally reaching edge
of an elevated slope, overlooking a vast plain, in
the centre of which Samnan was visible,
14 miles distant. The plain, till within a mile
or two of the city, was desolate and barren.
8
Lasgibd
26
172
Across plain in a west direction.
Fourteen miles from Samnan arrived at the vil
lage of Surkeh.
Continuing march some 12 miles farther, came to
Lasgird. Of. Boute Nos. 149 and 228.
9
Deh-Namak ...
26
198
Crossing a wide plain, always keeping in a west
direction, arrived at Abdulahabad, 12 miles from
starting place.
From this place crossed another immense plain,
with slight undulations on its surface, at the
farther extremity of which halting place was
visible. About 4 miles from Abdulahabad passed
a deep, narrow ravine. A ruined and now de-
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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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