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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎43r] (90/739)

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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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35
No. 29.
Birjand to Farah, via Gazik and Anardara,
Aidhorify —MacGregor.
No.
Distances,
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Bemabks.
1
isfazab
• • •
27
27
Vide Route No. 30.
2
3
F urk
Gazik
24
20
51
71
| Vide Route No. 32.
4
Kalat-i-Gabich
14
85
%
The road is good, and crosses an easy pass. Water
here, but no supplies.
6
C hah Ria
t •«
27
112
The road is level over waste. Good water here
from well, but no supplies.
6
7
C hah R usi
Dahkai*
t • •
• 0 •
10i
17|
1221
140
The road is good, and crosses the Gudar-i>Shabiak
pass half-way, which is easy. Here i^ a large
well of good water, biit no supplies.
The road is level, over a waste. Here Is water,
but no supplies.
8
Anaedara
• • •
lOJ
150|
The road is level; over a waste. Village with
water and supplies*
9
D iz C hahi
171
168
The road is level over a waste. Here is water,
but no supplies.
10
Farah
• • •
m
185|
The road is level, over a waste. A town.
No. 30.
Birjand to Farah, via lsfazar y Tab as and Duruh,
Authority —Stewart,
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
ebmaresv
rnterme-
diate.
Total.
1
Isfazae
26
26
Up the Birjand valley by a good road to Bojd (7
miles), a flourishing village with much cultiva
tion. Water plentiful. Pass over a light rise,
and then across a plain. At 11th mile reach a
fine reservoir, about 1 mile to the 1 eft of A li-
abad. At 21st mile pass close to a range of hills
where there is a spring, known as the Sar-i-Chash-
ma. At 231 miles Babuk, at 25th Tanak, and at
26th Isfazar, where there is a small fort fixed in a
commanding position. The whole road is

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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).

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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