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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎84v] (173/739)

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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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114
No. 70— contd.
Ghurian to Karman, vid Yazdan, fyc.
No.
of
stage.
D istances
in miles.
R emaeks.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
high. The hills to the east are more detached.
The drainage of the valley runs away through
the hills to the east into the Lnt. There are
scattered small villages about in the valley and
not much cultivation, except in neighhourhood of
Rawar and the villages. Yusufahad is watered
by a large fcarez which comes from western hills,
and which fills a large tank near village.
From this tank it is run off, as required, to the
various small villages in neighhourhood.
19
R awar
3,730'.
5
00
00
CO
Road runs straight across plain, passing two or three
villages, none very big. Encamped on the north
edge of village, which is a long strip of walled
gardens and houses mixed, some 2 miles long.
Head-quarters of district and is said to contain
1,500 houses. Supplies very dear as they had a
famine the previous year.
20
Hioz-i-PisJ ...
4,420'.
16
404
So called because it is 5 farsakhs from Rawar. Road
runs up Rawar valley, passing at first through a
lot of ground cut up by Icarez holes. At 2J miles
village of Khairabad ; at miles road, continuing
in a south-east direction, crosses a nala with low
banks and then continues up bank of same nala,
sometimes running up its gravelly bed and some
times on its bank. It runs on in direction of
curious mass of hill, a flat-top, detached hill, with
precipitous sides, which appears to block up the
end of the valley.
Along this part of road there are low hills close on
left,'valley on right being of varying width of
from 2 to 5 miles. At Haoz-i-Panj is a smali
building intended as a sarai, and a not very big
covered liaoz 9 full of rather bad smelling watei^
Fortunately this year, apparently on account o
the plentiful spring rains, there was good running
water in the stream close by. This is, howevei,
unusual. In very dry years the haoz water even
is uncertain.
21
ABID
6,080'.
13
417
Road runs up valley, still in the direction of squaie-
topped hill, over dasht. After about 7a nules i
drops into the bed of nala, banks having this ime
become some 30 or 40 feet high. From ei
road goes along the stony bed of nala, *
gradually closing in on it, and passes to rig ;
of precipitous, fiat-topped hill, Road, w e

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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.

Extent and format
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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