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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [65v] (135/739)
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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76
No. SQ—conctd.
Bujnurd Mashad-i-Ghulaman, via Katlish,
No.
of
stage.
Distances
in miles.
Ebmabks.
Names of etageg.
Interme
diate.
Total.
The people are Arabs, who are said^ to hare been
brought from near Karbala and onginally settled
by Shah Abbas on the Atrak, Thej were subset
quently settled at Katlish by Najaf Ali Khan,
the 7th Ilk-hani of the Shadillus, who built the
village walls to protect them from Tekke raids.
They now talk nothing but Turki,
4
M xthammadabad
3,600'.
7
36
Road leads up valley of the Ab-i-Gifan for first 3
miles, then leaving to right the Zafaranlu or
Kuchan village of Kazikala, situated at a bend
of the stream, where it turns north-east, goes
up small valley to left running north by west,
and follows it up to camp.
Village contains 10 families and belongs to
Kuchan.
Hills about Katlish, mostly of grey clay, and very
bare: further up, grass becomes thicker, but there
is little' wood.
6
Mashhad-i-Ghu-
laman.
3,700'i,
15
#
51
,
Eoad leads on up valley, gradually ascending inta
undulating upland grassy country, hill-sides
sprinkled with small juniper trees. Cross water
shed at height of some 4,800 feet at about the
5th mile, and then descend for some 7 miles
down a low ravine in a westerly direction into
the open valley in which Mashad-i-Ghulaman is
situated, crossing at 9th mile path leading from
Mana to Sulukli in the Atrak valley.
Present village built first outside ruined gateway
and walls of former town, destroyed by an earth
quake. It lies in centre of a long shallow
upland valley known as Julgar-i-kular, covered
with grass, affording excellent grazing.
The horizon on the north is bounded by the
Tagharan range, and to the south lies the parallel
Bash Tapa range. Both of these ranges can be
ridden over anywhere and are covered with grass
and small junipers; rocks only crop up occasionally.
From Mashad-i-Ghulaman or, as it is known to
the Turkomans, Kular-i-Mashad, the valley run&
down in a north-west direction to Suksu, distant,
it was said, 2 farsakhs. Two farsakhs again
beyond that was said to be the Russian-Turkoman
village of Daina. Suksu is entirely uninhabited j
the valley is said to drain from Suksu to Kuhna
Kasri on the Russian frontier.
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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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