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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [53r] (110/739)
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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55
No. 35— conoid.
Birjand to Mashad, via Kain and Turhat-i-Haidari.
Names of stages.
D istances
IN MILBS.
Interme
diate.
R emaeks.
Total.
From Mashad there are several routes to Herat
and Sistan, through the hills of Khorasan, The
route from Kain is bj no means rough or diffi
cult. Supplies are scarce, but there is no lack
of water, fuel and pasture. Connects with sec
tion III, Central Asian routes.
Stewart's account from stage 12 is as follows:
13
Shur Hisar, oe
Shue Saeai.
19
265
Over a wide plain for 10 miles, when road com
mences to wind about among hills. At 15 miles
pass old sarai of Khushtak. Here road rapidly
ascends to crest of pass called Gudar Baidar
( d ,700 ). bjkes found this pass very difficult
in March 1893. Road for about a mile would
have to be made for guns. There is, however, a
larger road turning these hills. After leaving*
Gudar liaidar, the road rapidly descends to Shur
Hisar, a ruinous village with a poor caravansarai.
14
Kapir Kala ...
4,850'.
24
289
At 3 miles sarai of Mian Dasht; and at 5 miles
Jlala bhahzada, a weak fort, but in good repair.
At 8 miles a range of hills is entered, and 11
miles the crest of the Gudar Muhammad IVlirza
(6,400 ) is reached. Pass is on the whole low
and easy, out near crest it would require making
for guns. Road then rapidly descends to Robat-i-
Safed at foot of the hills (16 miles), and crosses
the plain to Kafir Kala, which is on a steep hill
position is strong, and the fort would be
difficult to take without artillery. There is good
grazing near. °
15
Kobat Tueukh
28
317
Through low ravine ground. At 6 miles reach
ruinous sarai of Shahtaki. Eoad then passes over
a plain for 10 miles, when it meets the main
Tehran road. At 12 miles pass Sharifabad,
where there are two large caravansarais and a post-
house. Road now becomes very bad, though
still practicable for guns. It passes through 0 a
series of low hills and ravines. Robat Turukh
stands on the edge of the Mashad plain and
about 6 miles from that city.
16
Mashad
3,197'.
6
323
Across the plain; road easy.
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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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