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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [49v] (103/739)
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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48
No. 2>o~~contd,
Birjand to Mashad, vid Kain and TurlaUi-Haidatu
No.
of
stage.
D istaitces
in milks.
E emaeks,
Names of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
and Saghi and Husainabad on the right. Cul
tivation and fruit gardens ronnd the villages j
the mountain slopes generally afford good pastur
age for large herds of cattle.
At about iOth mile pass the small spring of
Gilangan, and then dip into the Sehdeh valley, a
wide platean extending some 25 to 30 miles east
and west. At Sehdeh there is a collection of three
villages, of which two are in rnins. Camp in an
open plain near village ; the water near camp is
brackish, but it is good from a Jcarez at village
itself. Village contains some 280 houses, and is
surrounded by fortified walls. A dozen villages
are within sight in the plain, and there is a good
deal of cultivation ; but few trees. About 3 miles
off is the walled village of Jafarabad, about 200
houses. All villages in neighbourhood are simi
larly fortified.
3
etjm
10
46
Route north over a low ridge, rough and stony.
Pass at about 8th mile, a shallow stream of good
water.
Rum is small, walled village of 80 houses, on
banks of a stream; water-supply abundant; a few
fruit gardens and corn-fields. Population scanty,
only about 30 families.
4
kain
20
j
66
Route north up the TCurn valley by a good road.
At 6th mile pass village of Birinjan and several
others, with considerable cultivation round them.
The villages are situated in the secluded hollows
on each side of the route, gradually ascending by
a general rise of the land. Reach at 10th mile
the watershed, 800' above Kurn. Descend by a
steep path, impracticable for guns, but easily
made passable, across the slope of the hill-side,
passing at about 3 miles further the villages of
amk and Kharwaj, the latter 750' below the
watershed, and containing about 120 houses, now,
however, deserted by all but 30 families, chiefly
Sayads. J
Town of Kain situated on eastern side of broad
vaUey stretching north and south at base of lofty
ill, called Abuzir, and said to be very ancient.
A ? ^^^.^dsome 10,000 houses, only
about 500 o± which are now occupied; the rest are
m ruins. I he valley surrounding town contains
so - e villages, which are well supplied
onn 1 7 kanats, and there are about
J00 villages in the whole district. Town itself
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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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