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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎46v] (97/739)

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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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No, 33—comcW.
biu.tand to Kakman, v/'d Naihand,
D istances
in I miles.
No.
Names of stages.
of
stage.
fnterme-
diate.
Total.
E emoks.
Shand-Ali Reza
Naibanb
34
20
110
At 23rd mile the two wells of Balaband are
reached. These wells are about 7' deep. Plenty
of water, cold and clear, but decidedly brackish.
At 5th mile beyond Balaband are five wells called
Chah Tuni, similar in quality to Balaband, but
not on road. No inhabitants at Balaband, but
some Arab nomads generally encamped at Chah
Tuni. Road good. One Jcavir skirted, but not
crossed. At 13th mile a haoz is reached, where
in spring there is water. At 20th mile another
Jiaoz, to which the same remark applies.
At 34th mile Shand-Ali Reza is reached. Water
in plenty and sweet from shallow wells about 3'
deep, dug in the bed of a torrent. Water though
good is rather stained with clay or iron oxide.
No inhabitants.
6
Haoz-i-Khan .e•
15
145
7
Chehel Pai ...
21
166
8
Daeband
24
190
9
Chah Kuea ...
12
202
10
Kaeimabad and
12
214
Ycsufabad.
11
Rawab
6
220
12
Haoz-i-Panj ...
15
235
18
Abid
15
250
14
Haruz
15
265
15
Hudtjk ...
24
289
16
Kaeman
21
310
130
Road good across desert. A salt stream, at this
season dry, is crossed. Salt in very large quan
tities lying on the surface.
At 20th mile the village of Naiband is reached.
Naiband, with the neighbouring hamlet of Ziarat-
gah, has about 400 inhabitants. Supplies only
procurable in very small quantities. Water good
and plentiful from a copious spring. Road at
first over a pass of the Naiband hills. At 4th
mile from Naiband the head of the pass is
reached, near which is a spring of brackish water.
j The stages from Naiband to Karman differ slight-
! ly from those given by Gore. For description
{ of road cf. his Route No. 70 from stage
1 15 to end.

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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)
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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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