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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [58r] (120/739)
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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61
No. 40— condd.
Bujnurd to Astrabad, via Skimalghan, fyc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
DisTANcag
IN MILES.
bb &iABXS.
Interme
diate.
Total.
11
Asteabad
1
14
185
Eoad as above.
Kinneir gives the following stages
1. Mama. 4. Hajipur.
2. Shurialglian. 5. Katul.
3. Kal Posh. 6. Kunduzak.
7. Astrabad.
The following is Napier^s account {vid Shimalghan, Robat-Karabil^
Chanda Abbas, and Findarisk)
1
ssimalghan ...
30
30
From Bujmird west across a spur of Akhir Kuh,
over a good road, to Shimalghan, a collection of
8 or 10 villages, with 400 or 500 houses, lying 1
in a fine plateau, which stretches west for 32
or 40 miles.
2
Robat Kaeabil
32
62
West and south, 82 miles to Robat-i-Karagaz of
Xarabil, an old caravansarai of the time of Shah
Abbas on a plateau draining to the Gurgan. Cf.
stage 2 above.
3
Chanda Abas ...
t
16
78
About west to Cbanda Abbas and Arghut, depopu
lated places on the same plateau, near its west
edge. On the hills to the north lie Karagifan
and Shahabad (which appears as Shahbaz on
many maps).
4
Guegan
28
106
West at 8th mile reaching the defile known as the
Dahan-i-Gurgan. This defile is described as nar
row and shut in by precipitous hills; and from
a distance it has this appearance, but the road
is good and might be made passable for guns.
A wide road, cut by Shah Abbas, is now buried
in dense forest. From the defile to Gurgan in
the plain is 20 miles, following the stream, which
rises below the defile. At Gurgan are camps of
Goklan Turkomans.
5
Gumbaz-i-Kaus
32
138
Thence following along the high banks of the
Gurgan west to the Gumbaz-i-Kaus, a tower
in the iplain, where are the ruins of a city, and
camps of Goklan.
6
Findaeisk
24
162
Across Gurgan plain, west to Findarisk, a large
village on skirts of the belt of forest and in
district of Astrabad.
7
Asteibad
36
198
For description of Asfcrabad, see Gazetteer of Per
sia.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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