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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [49r] (102/739)
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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(H
47
No. 35.
birjand lo mashad, via Kain Tnrljat-i-Ilaidari.
Authority — G oldsmid ; B ellew; S ykes, M arch 1893; S tewart.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stasres.
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
G HINK
18
S EHDEH
18
18
36
E euabes.
leaving
Crossing low bills at back of camp, and
town on left, road turns abruptly to right, and
for 5 miles runs in an east-north-east direction,
skirting the water-course that divides the town o£
Birjand, and passing at every 2 miles an abambar,
or water-tank of excellent, pure, cold water.
It then changes direction to the north-north-east
and crosses stony plain, which bends to east, and
joins the Sar Bishah valley, having on right a
remarkable, conical hill, known as the Mar Kuh,
at foot of which, a large village, called Kala-i-
Buidi. Eising again over a rocky ridge,
passing nine abambars, and village of Ishkam-
barabad, 20 houses and slight cultivation. To
left road pursues its course over another wide,
stony plain, with small hamlets and patches
of cultivation dotting its surface here and
there, and then changing direction to north-
north-west, reaches little village and garden
of Mabiabad, some 15 huts, 850' higher than
Birjand. This place is not far from the
Islikambar hamlet; the only pool of water is
brackish. From Mahiabad road runs nearly north,
and a mile afterwards enters the Saman-i-Shah
hills, running apparently nearly east and west.
At 12th mile pass fort and village of Pishuk;
thence ascending gradually, through wild and
desolate scenery, road traverses the defile of same
name, and at 16th mile reaches summit of pass
and line of
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
between the Birjand valley
and that of Sihdeh, at an altitude of some 2,000 ;
above level of Birjand. Thence a good road, with
a gradual descent of 450' in 2 miles to Ghink,
a village of about 80 houses, situated on rising
ground, amidst orchards and walled vineyards.
It is one of the chief villages in this part of the
country, and has a good spring of water and con
siderable cultivation. The Saman Sbahi pass is
about 6 miles long and winding; surface covered
with sharp-pointed fragments of rock. Near
summit the defile narrows for a distance of 40' or
50' to a small passage 20' wide.
Route north by west through range after range of
hills. Road rises gradually for 2 miles to the
Saghi
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
. Elevation 6,750'. During
winter there are heavy falls of snow on these
hills. Descent by an easy path, passing villages
of Naokhan, Chahikan, and Pistakhan on the left.
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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).
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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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