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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [76r] (156/739)
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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13
97
No. 63.
Daragaz to Kuchan, vid the Dawand Pass.
A u tltoriiy — N a p i er.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istakces.
in" miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Nukhandan
Nuandan os
Dubungae
8
24
32
3 | I mamguli
20
52
RaiiAEis.
See Eoute No. 63.
North-west from Nnkhandan through gardens
and vineyards. At miles pass Khallu, and
gain a^ wide, open, cultivated plain. At 5
miles, Kuh Kohchar, a spur of the main range,
runs out into the plains, rising to a height of
about 1,200 feet. Thence west, skirting
the right flank of the mountain, and follow the
stream up the valley, which contracts to 1 mile
m width. One-fourth of a mile from Zainadili
the valley bends west-north-west.
Sang Solokh lies on the slope of a spur on right
bank, and closes a pass leading from the Akhal
settlements in the Atak, the road lying north 1 "
west up a glen, and over Kuh-Asilma to Auau
and Askabad, distant 16 miles.
A.t Sang Solokh pass through narrow gap in mouis
tains 'west-south-west and turn north-west.
The following villages passed en route: —At 2i
miles, Burjkala, 20 houses, at 3| miles, Zulfan,
30 houses, and Khal Kaulu Tozanlu, 20 houses,
2 mile on left, at miles, Paiz Ali Beg, 20
houses, at 10 miles, Shekanlu, 20 houses, at
12J miles, Zainadili, 15 houses, at 16^ miles.
Sang Solokh, at 18i miles, Durangar Turki,
15 houses, and at 24 miles, the gardens and
hamlets of Durangar-i-Rurdi, four hamlets of
20 to 25 houses each of Kaikanlu Kurds.
Supplies ample. A road to Kalta Chenar and
Anau leads off north-west from the village up
a narrow glen. 0
Follow the glen south south-west. At 4 miles
cross stream issuing from narrow goro-e on
right, through which lies a road to Shorakh
and Dur-badam, villages of Kushan, distant 5
farsakhs. Thence south bearing up a narrow
rocky glen.
At 94 miles reach the foot of the Dawand Pass.
Road passable for wheels, but narrow, and
commanded by rocky heights. Ascent of Da
wand Pass 2 miles, 900 feet. Road fairlj good,
and ascent, for most part easy.
From the crest of pass, south, over bare, open
downs leading over a low gap in the Chuinli ridge.
At 13^ miles pass Chuinli, 20 families, Mar*
janlu Kurds, and cross a low, easy ridge into
the wide undulating valley of Zublilig, draining
north into the Durangar stream. Thence north
over steep undulations to the stream and village
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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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