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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [50r] (104/739)
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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49
No. 35— contd*
Birjand to Mashad^ via Kain and Turlat-i-Haidari.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
DlSTA-NCES
IN MILES.
Interme- m , ,
diate. Total.
Remares.
G IEIMANJ
21
87
Dasht-i Piaz ... 13
Kakh
5,000 r .
16
100
116
possesses from 70 to 80 wretched shops, three
hammams, and two ruined caravansarais. On
the summit of the hill Abzuzir, are the ruins of
strong and extensive fortifications, and behind it
a natural reservoir in the rock containing some
12' of water.
Route north-west; for first few miles across a
stony valley. At 4th mile pass a roadside ah~
amhar and at 6th mile village of Shir Murgh,
Traversing an undulating country, foot of Gudar-
i-Gud pass in the Bihud mountains is reached,
800' above Kain. Thence to summit of the pass,
which is reached at 18th mile ; ascent presents
little difficulty. Gudar-i-Gud
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
forms
boundary between the Kain and Nimbuluk dis
tricts. The hills are composed of sandstone,
with great mounds of clay on their sides, and
would be impassable for laden beasts in wet
weather. One mile before reaching Girimanj,
cross the Bud-i-Mukartbiaz, a brisk, little stream
flowing into the Nimbuluk plains. Girimanj is
a village containing about 130 houses and a small
fort, watered by karez streams ; a few miles west
are the Dehishk and Baznabad villages, ail situat
ed in the Nimbuluk valley or plain, which is about
35 miles long by 12 wide, lying north-west and
south-east. To the north-east, .and east this
valley is separated from the Gunabad plain by the
Maisur range of hills, over which are four passes.
Koute north-west. Across the Nimbuluk plain
passing a coup'e of ahambars, and two or three
hamlets at foot of the hills. Cross at about loth
mile a small hill stream, and ascend gradually to
Khidri, a flourishing village of about 200 houses
surrounded by fruit gardens and mulberry plan
tations, and abundantly watered by streams from
the hills.
Important village and fort of Dasht-i-Piaz lie at
the north of the Nimbuluk valley surrounded by
extensive gardens, its chief products being opium,
silk, wheat, cotton, barley, and vegetables. It
numbers now 800 houses, and has four Jcanats (one
of which never runs dry), several large ruins, and
a very old hammam.
Route west-north-west. Passing at 6th mile castle
hamlet of Shikuri (20 houses). There is a tank
here fed from a stream. Shikuri is 970' higher
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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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