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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [83v] (171/739)
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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113
No. 70— conkl,
Ghurian to Karman, via Yazdan, 8fc,
No.
of
ftage.
Names of stages.
D istakcbs
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
17
Dabband
3,050'.
23
354
B bmabiis»
cliff to cliff. The cliffs on either hand were very
like the Karez Elias and Zulfikar ones, being
formed by a limestone cap overlying nnconform-
ably blue clay bed, interspersed with strata of
shale. It is a very curious place. Bed, up which
road went, gradually narrowed, cliffs approaching
one another more closely. Passed an impercep
tible watershed, and then descended through a
similar nala to Chehel Pai. Here three little stone
huts for travellers, a dry haoz and the well, all
situated in the bed of this curious nala, here per
haps half mile wide, with cliffs on either hand.
The road the whole way was very well marked,,
being greatly used by pilgrims. There- were
generally five or six well-worn tracks abreast.
From the Naiband kotal to Ohehel Pai it is per
fectly easy for guns.
Well at Chehel Pai is 87 feet below surface. It is
approached by an inclined tunnel, down which
steps are cut in the rock, more or less rough. It
is very troublesome to water animals from, as the-
water has to be carried up these steps. Watering
36 mules aud 6 horses about dried it out, but it
filled up fairly well again in about six hours.
The Lut on this western side of the Naiband range
appears to be much more hilly than to the east
ward, ridges of detached hills being scattered oyer
it, with next to no vegetation. All supplies^,
etc., must be carried.
For 3 miles road continues down the same nala-bed
with cliffs on either side; then emerges into open
plain, and makes straight across for Darband hill
on the other side. It is a most desolate " dasht
of sandy gravel; surface a little soft at first, but
firm enough below : not a bush to be seen. Small
stone pillars built by side of road about every 2
miles, presumably to mark it. At 22 mues
reach foot of hills and road goes up for 1 mile
along a nala-bed among low outer hills to Dar
band. ^ .
Here is a newly-built caravansarai, a very small
spring of water and some date trees. A post ot
a couple of men is kept here. .
Road good for guns all the way, though a htt e
heavy here and there. ^ ,
In the valley passed over in this inarch lowest
point was 1,930 feet. This valley drains eastwards
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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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