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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [73r] (150/739)
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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91
No. 58.
C hikishliar to A skabad, Bami.
Authority — M aevin (from R ussian sources), 1879.
D istances
No.
Names of stages.
in miles.
of
stage.
Interne
diate.
Total.
R emarks.
1
Baum Bash
20
t ••
First 4 miles shell sand, then salines, then clay
soil; hard in summer, soft in winter. There
are 80 wells here, many with unpleasant water ;
also a Russian fort, 5 miles from the Atrak.
2
Deli li
Ui
34i
Road good, with occasional nullahs to be crossed ;
but these are easily passed. A lake here, 2
miles in circumference ; water brackish and
purges. A marsh separates it from the Atrak.
a
Gitdab-i-Alam
10|
414
Road ^ood, with many bends to avoid chasm.
Here it touches Atrak river, 18 feet wide ; banks
6 feet high. Land irrigated and cultivated. A
little forage. Wood and grass on Persian bank.
4
Baiat Haji
A lam .
19i
63f
Road good. Forage along it, but none at halting--
place itself. Atrak bed here f mile wide; banks
300 feet high ; many side nullahs. Water bad.
Desert on both sides of river. Redoubt here
usually held by two companies.
5
6
Y agli O lum ...
Takinja Olum
13i
13J
77i
91
Road good in summer, with nullahs across it, which
do not impede troops. No forage the whole way.
Water from river. Cf. Route No; 14, Connects
with Section III, Central A^ia Routes,
Road in three places crossed by nullahs, but
marching is not difficult. No forage. River-
bank steep-.
7
Chat
16
107
Road good. Nfo forage in summer. Abundant
giass, but heavy pains, and roads almost impas
sable in winter. Fort here armed with eight
guns, garrisoned by a battalion, and 135 feet-
above the Caspian. Sumbar and Atrak here-
unite ;■ banks of both very high. Bed of latter
200 to 300 yards wide, but river itself only 20
feet wide and 10 feet deep in April. Ground all
round Chat is clay and full of cracks and holes.
8
K huk O litm », f
Ui
121 J
Road good. Columns can advance on broad front
for first 11 miles ; after that hillocks and chasms
force it to narrow its front. No forage. Water
good from 8umbar.
0
Duz Olum
850'.
174
138f
For first 8 miles troops @an advance on a broad
frout, though chasms abound ; but they can be
avoided by turning to the left of the foot of
Khur Olum hill. After that the front must be
narrowed. No forage along the road. Diiz
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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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