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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [43v] (91/739)
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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36
No. 30— concld.
B iejand to F aeah, via Isfazar, Tab as and Lnru'h.
D istances
in miles.
Ko.
of
■stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Ebhabes.
Fuek
Ti .BAS
21
17
Eeza
D ueuh
6-10 F auah
13
47
64
77
30
109
107
216
passable for guns. There are direct roads from
here to Sarbishah and Rum.
The road, after leaving Isfazar, passes for 2 miles
over a plain, and then enters the Mominabad or
Mainabad range of mountains, which are crossed
by the Gudar-i-Darmian pass (7,000 feet). The
road then rapidly descends. For \ a mile rn
each side of the kotal, the road is very bad and
would have to be made for guns, but the rest
is quite practicable. At 14th mile pass the small
village of Doshingan, and at 19th the flourishing
village of Damian which is one mass uf orchards.
At 21st mile the fort and village of Furk. The
road from the crest of the pass to Furk through
a narrow gorge commanded by the fort. This
pass would be easy to force as the hills on each
side pould be crowned. The road so far is also
described in Route No. 32.
The road leaves the pass, and enters on a plain
for 17 miles (at 7th mile pass a fine reservoir),
when reach the fort of Tabas Sunikhana, a strong
fort on an artificial mound. There is much corn
annually grown here.
Over a fertile plain with many villages. At 2nd
mile pass Aliabad, and at 3rd Muhammadabad,
At 7th reach the village of Dastgird. Here
the road turns the hills on the left, and at 9th
mile enters them. It is here very bad and quite
impassable for guns. (There is a better but
much longer road.) At 13th mile reach Eeza;
orchards, cultivation and water. From Reza
there is a road to Anardara.
F i 0 1 r 6 miles over a plain, when the road enters
the bed ot a considerable river, which in summer
is dry. At 8th mile turn out of this river-bed and
enter that of a feeder ; then over some low roll
ing hills At 16th mile pass the wretched vil-
lage of Makhunak. The road then follows the
dry bed of a wide river for 6 miles ; then pass
through a little cultivation at a place called Ba^h
Sang. At 30th mile reach Duruh, a frontfer
town with much cultivation and over 2,000 in
habitants.
From Duruh caravans go to Farah by five easy
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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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