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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [79r] (162/739)
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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103
No. 69— concld.
Fiuuzkuh to Astrabad, vici ChasJimciy fyc.
No.
D istances
in" miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
R emaekb,
7
Chaman-i-Manga
6,500'.
28
150
Road leading from the Sia i-Tang valley keeps
along the main stream, the hills on each side
being 300 feet to 400 feet high. Pass villages
of Kala-i-Sar, Surt, and Badalah, the latter hav
ing at least 500 inhabitants. Road now crosses
the
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
, and descends by a gentle slope to
a wide valley which joins that of Chahardeh. At
Manga there is a copious spring.
8
4
chaiiakdeh ...
18
168
Along the stream to the Chahardeh valley, then leav
ing it, and making for the low hills on south
side, march along them till the Chahardeh valley is
reached at Kalata (10 miles from Chahardeh).
There is a shorter road from Manga by Tudeh
and Namaka.
From Kalata follow the main road from Chashma
Ali to Chahardeh through wheat-fields and ruined
villages. Chahardeh is a great depot for mules,
and the gardens about it are well irrigated.
9
Chahaebagh
25
193
Leaving Chahardeh, for 4 miles up a narrow valley
towards Shah Kuh; then sharp to the left by a
zigzag up to the
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
; then down into
another valley, across it and up a narrow glen.
Over the spurs on the north face of Shahkuh, by
a fair road, passable for guns to Chaharbagh.
10
11
zlabat ...
Astrabad ...
12
11
205
216
Vide Route No. 218 stages 12 and 18.
Notb .—The distances throughout are only approximate.
No. 70.
Ghurian to Karman, vid Yazdan, Burj Guhvarda } Awaz > Jasfi, Birjand^and
Naih and.
Authority —St. G. Gore. (Season, September and October.)
Ko.
Distakces
in miles,
of
atage.
Names of stages,
Interme
diate.
Total.
KEMABEi,
1
C hashma M anao
24
24
A very nasty inarch, no marked road and ground
greatly cut up by ravines and low hills. There
is a small but good stream of water here, very
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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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