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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [74v] (153/739)
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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04
No. 59—
Damghan to Tabas, vid
No.
of
stage.
D istances
in mile"-?.
B bmaeks.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
" Total.
11
C hah M ehji ...
64
328
The road goes out towards Kuli Ohastab range 77°
over level gravel plain, crossing several dry water
courses, draining S. E. at 5 miles. It goes
over kavir for 3| miles; then over gravel
for 2 miles to an old haoz ; then on, still over
gravel, for If miles ; turn 90° ; at 2| another old
haoz ; at 2| on cross bed of salt or clay; at f
mile Haoz Mirza in ruins, all over hard gravel
then turn 100° over gravel for 9f miles, when come
to sandy waste of Sargardu, which consists of un
dulating ridges of the heaviest possible sand
with no trace of a road and most dangerous with
out a guide. Continue over this for 6 miles;
then go over Icavir, very difficult travelling for
animals, on account of numerous holes, for 14
miles; then come to sand, level, and heavy, but not
so bad as other ; go over this for 7 miles and come
to edge of plain; then wind among sand-hills for
3J miles to sta^e. No supplies. Beastly water.
Note. —The total distance, according to the above
description, is 68J miles.
12
D oein
14
342
The road goes for 7 miles over sand \ then over
gravel for 1J miles ; then again over sand and'
gravel; then over stony plain, ascending for | mile.
No supplies. Bad water, good. 2 miles off.
13
J afaeu ...
17
359
The road ascends very gradually between hills for
9i miles ; it then descends, equally easy, through
a valley, with hills close on either side, for 8
miles. Few supplies. Good water on road 2
miles from end.
14
S hoeab
3,290'.
24
383
The road goes down the valley-level. At 15 miles
join road from Biabanak-Sarai. Water. Few
supplies.
15
C hahaedeh ...
2,470'.
18
401
The road is level and good the whole way.
It crosses a few salt ravines, and at 4| miles ;
passes a low ridge by a gorge ; it then goes down
river-bed for | mile ; then over level waste for 2
miles to another river-bed. At 8| miles haoz of
water, whence over level waste for 11 miles, when
it goes down to a salt waste, which it crosses at
12 miles; it then goes over gravel to 14 miles, and
then over heavy sand for 4 miles.
16
T abas mi
2,370'.
10
411
The road is quite level the whole way over plain,
at first passing through cultivation for 3 miles ;
then over sand for 6 miles to Imamzada Jefu.
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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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