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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [65r] (134/739)
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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n
No, SO—contd.
Bujnurd to Mashad-i-Ghulaman^ via Katlisk,
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in" miles.
Interme
diate.
S
R bmaeks.
Total.
Atrak. Abdulabad contains about sixty families
of Shadillus and stands on the banks of the
Atrak, here a stream some 15 feet in width and
2 feet in depth, and runaing- between steep banks,
some 20 feet below the level of the land on either
side»
Ealajik;
3,800'.
10
19
Katlish
3,100'.
10
29
A hard march over the mountains. Passing
through the village, a good deal of delay in get
ting the mules across the river. Than working
down the right side of the valley leave the village
of Surak to left at the 2nd mile, and half a
mile beyond that, the road to Kizil Khan turns
off to right. A mile beyond that the ascent
commences and striking north up the hill-side,
steady ascent for some 4 miles, rising nearly
1,900 feet and then descending again another
1,0C0 feet in the next two miles to the village of
Kalajik, which is built lower down on the steep
banks of a nulla, and has about 50 houses of ICurds.
On the hills a sort of hawthorn tree growing,
covered with yellow haws or berries, not at all
bad to eat, and nearly as large as a small crab-
apple. Another variety of the same tree had the
small red berry.^ The: hills about are largely
cultivated for rain crops, and chakor are to bo
found in most of the ravines wherever there is
any water.
The road leads over the- hills ascending some 600
feet and then descending again, and up a ravine
on the opposite side to the top of a second range,
the hills being well covered with grass and largely
under cultivation. Then descend some 1,300 feet
into an uninhabited valley called Kuruk, down
which road runs to Katlish, which is the most
advanced Bujnurd village in this direction. One
farsakh to the east, up the valley of the Kuruk,
lies the village of Izman, and to the north-east
up the valley of the Gifan stream the villages
of Kazikala and Amirabad, all belonging to
Kuchan. Katlish itself is a walled village cou^
taiuing some 150 houses.
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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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