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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [45v] (95/739)
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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40
No. W-^concld.
B irjand to H erat, via Yazdan.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Distances
IN MILES.
fnterme-
diate.
Total.
R emaem.
Keland
Moqhal Bacha
Parah
10
Heeat
34
170
16 186
20
18
206
224
The road, on leaving Yazdan, goes in direction 75*
following a Tcarez, which comes down from the
hills from the north-east. It then, after running
quite level for about 12 miles, gets among low
hills, and ascends the shoulder of these for an
other 8 or 9 miles to a well of very bad water
called " Keland." This is the only water be
tween Yazdan and Moghal Bacha, but it was so
brackish when Colonel iVJ acGregor traversed this
route in 1875, that the animals would not drink it.
From the Keland spring the road continues over an
extensive and uninteresting plain for some 10
miles, and then over undulating ground for the
last 5 or 6 miles, to the well of Moghal Bacha, the
water of which is cool and sweet.
Over the same uninteresting waste as the last
day's march, covered with thorn scrub and with
hills, now near on the right, now far off on the
left. ^ Parah is the first village on the road in Af
ghanistan, though the frontier of Afghanistan
lies some 10 miles east of Yazdan. It is a small
village of ]00 houses, each house having a sort
of separate enclosure.
The road proceeds at first over a waste of undulating,
stony ground, but the limits of cultivation in the
Herat valley are soon reached, and the remainder of
the route lies through this far-famed fertile region.
At 8th mile the village of Kargan is reached,
and at about the llth. mile that of Deh-i«Minar,
Here there is a road to Zindajan, a large village
on the road to Mashad, distant 15 miles. Con
nection with Section III, Central Asian Routes,
Sar-i-Chah
Buruksh
Zihan
Mihrah
Charrakhs
Gul-i-Haoz
Robat-iLut
Haoz-i-Ghurian
B irjand to H erat.
Alternative route vid Ghurian -
•«#
• ••
• ••
• ••
»»•
• ••
• ••
• ••
• M
• t •
T otal
Miles.
23
15
15
10
15
15
22
16
131
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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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