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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [67v] (139/739)
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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80
No. b%~~€ontd.
B andau G az to H erat, fye.
No.
of
etage.
Names of stages#
DlSTAlTCEa
IN MILK8.
Inteime-
diate.
jljas
S hahbud
24
Total.
Bbuabks.
71 Seven hours' march. Direction S.E. The road for
4 miles is an ascent not bad for mnles, but camels
cannot pass, the ground being moist and slippery.
The Persian Army lost several camels by broken
legs in falling down. Four miles from the top
of the mountains the country becomes almost
barren with only a few fir trees here and there
on the hills two miles distant from road. The
Robat Safed (caravansarai) was passed. From
here the road, descending, comes to a pass over
small hills, when it emerges into the well culti
vated valley of Rud Snd Bar, where a river runs
from E. to W. From here one comes to a
short ascent, and then to a steep and narrow
descent into the Jajas Valley.
24 95 Five hours' march. Direction S. E. The road
follows the river that goes to Bostan for the first
6 miles. From there the country is barren and
stony to Shahrud. Five miles from latter
place the village of Kelate is passed.
Alternative from Astrabad to Shabrud via Chalchalian Pass.—
Leaving Astrabad by Mazandaran gate—
K ubd M ahalla
16
43
Bear W. for 2 miles across plain covered with
dense thorn l^akes and. scattered forest. Then W,
S. W. for \\ miles; road heavy and wet; continue
along causeway; cross, at 9| miles, Shast Kulla
stream from Miandara and Kafshgari. At 10
miles pass Mianzada of Roshanabad, and thence,
still along causeway, to Kurd Mahalla. Sup
plies of all kinds procurable.
Note. —From the Shast Kulla stream to Kurd
Mahalla the path lying alongside of the high
road is exceedingly bad, winding through dense
thorns and knee deep in mud. The causeway is
almost entirely abandoned, the pavement being for
the most part broken up and more difficult than the
muddy tracks through the forest. In dry weather
a good temporary road might be made with little
labour, the line of the causeway being still clear
of forest. This line opposes fewer obstacles than
any other to the construction of a road for wheeled
conveyances between Shahrud and Mazandaran;
but it is very circuitous.
Kurd Mahalla contains 350 to 400 houses, and is
situated half a mile off left of high road in dense
forest, which extends to the shore 4 or 5 miles
distant. Its port, Mullah Kala, the nearest to
Astrabad, is much frequented by native boats.
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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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