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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎46r] (96/739)

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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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6
This is probably a better road than the one followed by Colonel Mao-
Gregor, as it passes by villages, two of them, Duruksh and Charrakha
being large places.
The above distances seem to have been underrated, as the distance from
Birjand to Ghurian by Charrakhs by compass measurement on Colonel
Walker's map, 1878, is at least 190 miles.
Note .—There is also a route to Ghurian, connecting with Routes Nos. 89, 136 and 190,
with water at each stage, viz.:—
(1) Ab-i-Gaiwand ,,,
(2) Kala Gaodar
(3) Ab-Amrutak
(4) Ghurian
No. 33.
Birjand to Kauman, via Khur, Naiband, Eaoz-i-Khan and Chehel Pat.
Authority —Stewart; Ferrier.
Miles.
... 39
... 19
... 32
... 8
No.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
of
stage.
Interme.
diate.
Total.
K emabks.
1
Khusp
4,070'
23
23
Cf. Route No. 322.
Small town of probably 6,000 inhabitants ; much
cultivation. Supplies procurable in considerable
quantities. Road from JBirjand fair, over a plain •
several villages passed. One part of the road!
where it crosses the bed of a stream, bad, but all
passable to guns. Khusp is situated on a stream
of same name. It is the same stream as that
on which Birjand is built.
2
Khue
30
53
Below Khnsp this stream becomes very salt. It
finally fends in a salt desert, 20 miles beyond Nai-
band. Road at 7th mile crosses low hills, and
goes through them for several miles. At 9th'mile
the hamlet of Dastagird, of 6 houses, with spring
of good water. At 20th mile a single house
and spring of good water, called Jambuk. At
30th mile village of Khur, of about 1,800 in-
habitants. Villages trongly situated, on two sides
cliffs, on other side a salt marsh, one side open.
Supplies in fair quantities. Has an old fort
with garrison of 7 or 8 men. Is the first village
in Tabas district.
3
Balaband
23
76
Road good across Lut desert. Some salt desert
crossed, but not in large tracts, or of a bad sort,
salt stream, which rises at Xhur, and kavirs are
twice crossed in this day's journey.
At 9th mile a haoz of good water is passed. At
13th mile two wells of very bad water are passed.
Ferrier made it four stages to Khur
Miles.
Shah Zilla ... ^ « 14
Shanel I Z li
Haoz Jumbuk... ... ... ] 8
Khur ... ... ... 18

Total ... 64

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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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