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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [38v] (81/739)
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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26
No. 21.
A strabad to T ehran, via Sari,Aliahad, Sullanabad,
Authority—Vicov. September, 1894.
No.
of
stage.
Karnes of stages.
Distances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total,
E smaeks.
S aei
HAFTUM(HArTAN)
310'.
ZlEAB
1,210*.
sltekabad «11
2,340'.
Fieuzzxjh
6,580',
77J
20
21
24f
135
Vide Route No. 217,
stages 10 to 14,
The road runs througli cultivated country,
chiefly rice, and passes over the Sang Farash
(causeway) which is in a very imperfect state.
The overflow from the rice-fields renders road ex
cessively boggy ; village of Aliabad (40 or 60
houses) with bazaar on the road.
JSote. —An alternate route runs south from Sars
and making a detour, joins the main road about
1 mile from Aliabad. This route is often taken
by caravans during the rice season to escape,
boggy ground.
159
7 miles to Shirgah following right bank of
beautifully wooded Talar river. Good rice cul
tivation on low levels near the river-bed. The
old Sang Farash (causeway) still exists on certain
sections of the road. Shiigah consists of a few
huts in a forest clearing.
Note. —A road branches from this point west of
the main road, and is sometimes used by caravans
to Barfarush 9 miles; a side stream is crossed by
a fine bridge of 2 arches; 18| miles, village of
Khurdabad (30 houses). [Note. —This is probably
the village marked as Abdulabad on Curzon's?
map, for I could find no village of such name.)
Latter part of tract much broken though gradient
is easy. Supplies available, but procured with
difficulty.
At 5|- miles, the track crosses to the left bank
by an old bridge of 2 arches. At 8 miles,
village of Shumurst which is situated in valley
to west of the track (100 houses). Good grazing
and village supplies available. 16 miles the
main valley at JDo-ab is joined from the east
by a stream and branch valley. A road leads by
eastern valley to Samnan. The main valley and
road rises gradually to Surkabad and is easily
traversed by mules. The usual rice cultivations
continue as far as Surkabad.
I 5J miles, gradual ascent to rocky gorge, 80
yards broad, 300 yards long, with precipitous
sides; a winding pass is then entered opening
out into valley 3 to 400 yards in breadth. 12i
miles, watershed and pass 6,620', crossed at
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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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