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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [84r] (172/739)
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
15
No. 70—contd.
Ghurian to Kauman^ via Yazclan^ fyc.
No.
of
stage.
D istances
in miles.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
B emaeks.
into the Dasltt-i-Lut to the south of the
Kuh-i-Murghab. This would give a probable
height to the point (where Khanikoff crossed the
same drainage) of perhaps 1,700 feet, which ia
probably the lowest point of the Lut between
Birjand and Karman. From there the Lut prob
ably slopes gently away towards Sistau which
has a height of 1,300 to 1,400 feet.
18
Yusufabad
3,670'.
29
383
Road runs north-west from sarai for about 1 mil©
till it gets on edge of main nala coming out of
the hills. It then turns west-souih-west up
nala and runs along high right bank of nala
going up and down across the side streams. In
one place there is a nasty drop into a nala of
about 30 feet, good enough for baggage ani
mals, but guns could not pass in its present
state; altogether this part of the road would
want looking at. The road and nala gradual
ly trend south, and after about 4 miles road
descends into the wide nala-bed and runs up
it. At 12J miles a large nala comes in ou
right hand (as one goes up the road), and about
J mile up this, is ruined sarai of Chah Kura
There are two or three wells here a little abovo
the sarai. They appear to be old harez pits, but
the harez does not run at present. They held
plenty of water. The sarai and wells are off the
main road whicb continues up the main nala.
After .leaving the junction of the nalas, road
continues up main nala and soon enters some
clay hills, where track is very narrow at the
bottom, barely wide enough for a gun carriage
to pass in its present state. At 15 miles an easy
kotal among these clay hills is passed and the
road then descends into a plain surrounded by
hills mainly of a fantastic character; very steep
clay ridges, with walls of limestone perched on
top. Passing through this plain at 28 miles,
small village of Karimabad is reached. Good
supply of water from a karez, and at 29 miles
the small village of Yusufabad.
There is extraordinarily little vegetation anywheio
about this country, the very scantiest camel graz
ing, except in the immediate vicinity of viilagea,
where camel-thorn grows freely,
Yusufabad is in the Rawar district, which consists
of a large plain, lying north and south, with
high hills to west, the highest being 11 ,060 feet
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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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