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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎81v] (167/739)

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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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108
No. 70— contd.
Ghurian to Karman, via Yazdan, fyc.
No.
of
Htage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
E bmaeks,
Interme
diate.
Total.
13
Nalinao
3,590'.
25
225^
At 5 miles pass large village of Khusp with small
mud fort, giving its name to the district. From
here road to Dastgird and Khur described by
Stewart, branches off to W. Passing Khusp road
at 5j- miles, crosses river-bed by a very easy
crossing and runs along right bank to Fidishk,
a moderate village with good karez water, the
last inhabited place in this direction towards the
Dasht-i-Lut.
Road runs from Fidishk, down right bank of
Khusp river which along here has a small
running stream in it, the same as the
Fidishk water, slightly brsckish. After run
ning about 2 miles, some low hills which appear
to close the Khusp valley, come down to the river-
bank. Road passes through these, which are
here merely undulating ground. After about a
mile of this, road emerges on to dasht of usual
type covered with wormwood bushes: then
leaves neighbourhood of river-bed and turns
more to the west. At 7^ miles a dry haoz and
another at llf. From here road bends more to
south and makes for hills on the opposite side
of the dasht. At 13J- miles dry bed of the
Khusp river is crossed and road keeps on its left
bank for a little way; about here a great quantity
of firewood can be obtained. Road goes on
steadily south-west making for Nalinao which
can now be seen under the hills. Height of
lowest point of valley is 3,360 feet. The road
ascends about 200 feet up a gentle daman and
reaches Nalinao at 25 miles. There is one fair
spring here of slightly brackish water, and one
or two oozing springs ; they fall into a pond some
20 yards in diameter. The present supply would
do for one infantry regiment. Small flocks of
sheep are pastured in the neighbourhood. No
good firewood in the immediate vicinity.
At Sar-i-chah, which appears to be from 20 to 25
miles from here along the hills to the east-south-
east, there is said to be plenty of \vater and
good "abadi." It was from that point that
Khanikoff started on his march across the Lut
to Khabis. I was told that nowadays there is
no water whatever on that road. If caravans
cross there, which they only do in the winter,
they have to carry water with them for the
whole inarch.

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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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