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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [45r] (94/739)
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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89
No. 2&*~~contd.
B irjand to H erat, via Yazdan,
Ko.
of
stage.
d istances
in miles.
Names of stages.
1
nterme-
diate.
Total.
bema .bes.
the centre. There is ^ood water in abundance,
and supplies are plentiful. From here there are
three roads to Herat. The first E .S .E. to Anar-
dara, which is about 90 miles off, the longest by
four days' march. The second goes to Sabzawar,
115 miles distant, but has little water and no
villages. The third is the direct road, and has
water at all stages.
4
Burj Gulwaeda
3,030'.
15
86
From Gazik the direct road leads straight over the
hill, while the longer, but level, road passes by
Ahwaz, leaving that village a little fco the right;
thence it enters the hills which are quite easy and
open, by a miniature defile called the Dahan
Awaz, for 3 miles, whence it emerges and goes
over easy, open hills for 1 mile ; then over spurs
from the range to the left in a direction of 30°
for 3 miles, to an easy pass over the main rano-e.
It then descends into the bed of a stream in which
it continues for | a mile, and then over a vast,
barren, stony, and desolate plain, ia a direction of
70 or 75°.
Burj Gulwarda is simply a tower erected on a low
ridge which runs across the plain near a pool of
bad water.
5
S hokab
2,430'.
20
106
The road continues across an open, level plain,
partly covered with sand, in a direction of 30° for
the first 8 miles ; then 20° to the 12th mile,
when, ascending slightly over undulating, hilly
ground, the spring of Shorab is reached at the
20th mile. The water here is brackish, but quite
drinkable.
6
Y azdan *
2,313'.
30
136
The road passes over at first undulating, hilly, but
quite open, ground ; then over the same sort of
plain as in the last march, in a direction of 50°
which continues to about the 18th mile, when,
crossing another little ridge, a spot called ** Kabu-
dah " is arrived at, a regular little oasis in this
sandy desert. Here there is a swampy patch of
ground covered with reeds. Many small bushes,
such as the tamarisk and oleander, grow around,
and there is a bit of green grass at the foot of a
ruined tower. The water is salt and unpalatable.
Thence crossing a low hill Yazdan is seen in the
distance. Here there is a strong little fort and
houses for about twenty families. Good water
and some supplies are procurable.
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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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