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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [82r] (168/739)
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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109
No. 70— conid.
Ghurian to Karman, via Yazdan, fyc.
No.
of
Btagc.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
R emabks.
Interne
diate.
Total.
14
Gaemab
3,160'.
13
238^
10th arched to Garmab, distant 13
miles. The road for the first 3 mile runs
west along the foot of the ridge of hills, it
then enters a nala-hed, up which it conti
nues^ the direction being generally west. The
nala is wide and the bed easj-going and having
many tamarisk-trees in it. At 6-5 miles a kotal
is reached (height 3,940 feet), the watershed
between the north and south slopes of the range.
The road up it is very gentle and the kotal very
low (350 feet above Nalinao), from here the
road runs over undulating ground in a south
west and south-south-west direction to about 9
miles, where it enters another broad nala-bed,
down which it runs west-south-west till Garm ab
is reached at 13 miles. Here there is an old
tower situated on highish ground, well above
the nala-bed, the ground about being undulating.
There is a hot spring here, having its source close
under the tower on the high ground. tS spring
has a good steady flow of water much more than
at Nalinao. The temperature of the issuing
water is 107° (Fahrenheit). When cooled it is
drinkable, but rather salt and a trifle sulphury
and not nice. There is plenty of firewood tama
risk about.
The road to-day was quite passable for guns ; like
all roads, used only by baggage animals, it would
want smoothing here and there, when cut by
water-courses, but there is nothing that could not
be done as the guns went along,
Garmab may be looked on as situated on the edge
of the real Dasht-i-Lut. One has a very exten
sive view from here from south-east round to
west. Far away to the south-east a high conical
peak, the name of which was given me as
Shahkuh, was visible. This lies a little to the
south of the route from Neh via Sar-i-chah to
Birjand traversed by Khanikoff. To the south
were several lower hills, apparently detached,
which lie in the middle of the Lut near Khani
koff 's road across it. To the south-west appear
ed the double-peaked Kuh-i-Murghab which lies
almost on the other side of the Lut, not very far
from Karman. Directly west was visible the
high-peaked Kuh-i-Naiband, at the foot of which
Naiband, our next halting-place, is situated.
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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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