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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [80v] (165/739)
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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106
No. 70— conid.
G hurt an to K arm an, via yazdan, 8fc.
D istances
in mtt.bs,
rsa-aj—
No.
of
stage.
Namen of stages.
Interme.
diate.
Total.
E emaeks,
of the Fakh Rud. It continues on over the dasht
for 10J miles further till Naoghab is reached. A
good hard road fit for guns all the way.
The village is situated just south of two detached
black hills aud consists of an old fort with the
usual suburb of mud houses. Water plentiful
from karez, and fair lot of cultivation. Firewood
very scarce as usual. Several very fair villages
along valley of Fakh Rud and some under the
foot of the hills to south which border valley on
that side.
8
G ask
6,581/.
1
"1
145|
Road on leaving Naoghab immediately crosses
dry bed of Fakh Rud, banks quite low, so that
stream here can never have much more that \\
or 2 feet of water in flood time and then rises
steadily over dasht to village of Burun j, miles
—a good sized village with nice trees and ruined
fort—thence onwards slightly descending to *
Gask, 11^ miles.
Gask is a large village with usual ruined fort,
plentiful supply of water, and good cultivation.
People mainly employed in carpet making. This
and village of Duruksh, some 8 miles to north
west, being well known for their carpets.
Gask is the first Kizilbash village out of Sanikhana
district which ends here.
Second crop of barley up and in ear: quantities,
of turnips, beet-root and carrots.
9
R ahnish
5,350'.
17
162^
From Gjask road passes over dasht for 1J miles,
when it drops into one of main branches of
Fakh Rud up which it runs among low hills
composed of clay and shale. There is running
water all down the stream and small patches of
cultivation on every available spot. At 3,| miles
old mined fort. The road continues up nala to 11
miles to the fairly-sized village of Sar-i-chah.
There are probably one or two alternative tracks
up to this point up the various branches of
the nala. Passing Sar-i-chah, continued up nala
and at 12 miles ascended a very easy kotal (6,560
feet). Then road drops suddenly at first into
valley running south, aud at 17 miles reaches small
fort of Rahnish. Karezes all down the valley
and small patches of cultivation. Road is easy
throughout, though track would require a little
levelling here and there for guns.
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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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