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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [37v] (79/739)
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— conoid.
Astrabad to Tehran, via, Chahardefi, Samnan, fyc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Distances
in Miles.
Interme
diate.
Remarks.
Total.
serted tower is perched on a small eminence just
above it, at Deh-Namak (salt village), where
there is another of Shah Abbas' sarais*
10
11
12
Kishlak
Aiwan-i-Kaif
Padasht
13 Tehran
24
20
28
20
222
242
270
290
Arrived at fort or
village
of Pordeh, constructed
also on the same plan as Lasgird. Now entered
a division of Irak, called Khavar.
Continuing, passed in succession the villages, Kala-
Haraubeh, Mehtabad, Aliabad, and Aradin. The
remainder of march to Kishlak through this
well-cultivated and well-waiered district was
pleasant from its contrast with the barren and
desolate country lately traversed. Passed many
flourishing villages in the distance.
Going a little N. of W., travelled over a more
barren part of the plain for about 2farsakhs %
and then entered a valley lying between low
ranges of sandy hills. An intensely salt stream
flowed through it, and the deposit on the edge
was sometimes f an inch thick. Travelling
about 4 miles through this valley, passed the
remains of an old fort, and entered an extensive
plain, strongly impregnated with salt, and its
K extremity totally uncultivated. Two farsahhs
turther to Aiwan-i-Kaif.
At first over a barren plain along the skirts of the
Alburz and cross several small rivulets flowino- S.,
m which direction numerous fields and villages
were to be seen in the distance. The last 8
miles through a well-cultivated country.
tj 16 ^. 00 ^ rao'mtains towards Tehran.
The city lies in the middle of a hollow plain, and
1S -?i 0 - V . lslb . 1 , e 1 a ^ er an intervening hill and
within 4 miles of it.
0 fl st ? nce from Ahnan (stage 6) by
Route No. 228 is 160 miles. Holmes makes it
174 miles.
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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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