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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [71r] (146/739)
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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87
No. 5 A— contd.
Burujird to Karmanshah , via Beh Pir.
No.
of
«tage.
Names of stages.
D istances.
in" milea.
Interme
diate.
Total.
2 khuramabad ...
12
60
Karmavshah ...
144
204
R emarks.
by its beautiful verdant appearance, while the
f, ou l' n " were covered with stunted oak
and box trees; but there was nut a village or
extent 0 Deh PrTf 0 "' thro ^ ho ^ the Vhol^
extent. Ueh-tn, lik-e some others near it
is a poor paltry village, containing about 20
mud houses, which are inhabited in winter and
deserted .n summer. Within 3 farsakhs of this
wietched place, and nearly at the end of the plain
of Hurn, the road strikes ofC to the left, embraoin"
the foot of a very high hill.
t0 plaee Was rou ^ h aild stony, and
wound much amongst the hills. A small rockv
the w S M S "f 07 ®! 4 ' 011 the top of which is a forf
the wal's of which are impregnable to the efforts
T L T 9 ' 11 army, but ' b -> T a co "ple of pieces of
light European ordnance, might be battered
down in the course of half an hour Datteie( l
It 18 surrounded by a double wall at the base, and
he summit where the place is built is also verv
Strongly defended The fort mounts eight
and contains exclusively the palace and its
dependent buddings. The modern town, which
is small containing not more than 1,000 houses
is built below the fort, on its south-west face'
The river, a broaa shallow stream , M c soc . „i
to the south-east of the fort a^Twn 'thf
banks are covei-ed with gardens, and among these
are to be seen the remains of the old town.
The distance from Khuramabad to Karmanshah bv '
this Windmg and uninhabited road is computed
at 86 farsakhs, or about 144 miles, and is per-
formed in five easy stages. The road presents
but few obstacles to the march of an army ex!
cept Just after leaving Khnramabad, when it
winds a good deal amongst the hills, lying a l ono .
the bed of a large stony river. Onlv two
villages between these two towns, one, abont 7
fareakhs from Karmanshah, and the other 8
but three or four very beautiful plains intervene'
producing very fine grass for grazing the cattle'
ofthell.ats. At Harsin, which iAhe viUage
within 7 farsakhs, cross a large river that has it«?
sonrce at that place, and, within 4 miles of
Karmanshah, pass another with a fine bridge over it.
The roads are, generally speaking, excellent, bein»
o > smooth, and level, seldom presenting any
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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).
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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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