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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [85r] (174/739)
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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115
No. 70 — contd.
Ghurian to Ka^man, via Yazdan, 8fc,
No.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
of
stage.
Interme
diate.
Total.
R emaees.
possible, leaves the bed and gets on to tKe
banks. Guns, however, would have to stick
to the bed. It would be a heavy bit of work for
them in any case. After a tiresome march of 13
miles Abid or Ab-i-Bid is reached. The ascent
is very considerable all the way, amounting to
1,660 feet.
Here there is a sarai apparently only partly built.
There is a large willow-tree on the rising ground,
and from all over this bit of ground near the
tree water oozes out, making little running
streams. On the whole, there is a very fair
supply, more than ample for all caravans, and the
water itself is good. The dasht was much
more like the Afghan ones, having vegetation
on it.
22
Haeuz
6,560'.
14
401
Road runs from Abid south-east, still up same vallev,
with high hill to south, for about 1 mile, where
it passes oyer a gentle watershed, and, leaving the
Eawar drainage, descends another narrow valley
still in the same direction. At about 3| miles
end of this valley is reached and road emerges
into a sort of basin among high hills which
receives drainage in various directions, the result
ing drainage running apparently away north-east
into the Lut. At this point road turns sharp
to right and runs due south. At 4| miles low
kotal over some day hills is passed and about 5|
miles a second higher and stonier kotal is crossed
and the road drops down on to Sar-i-Apsh in the
bed of a stream which makes its way into the
aforesaid basin. Sar-i-Apsh is on the edge of the
stream with big hills at its back. It is a small
village. There is a nice running mountain stream,
the first real running stream seen since the Hari
Rud. Road continues on south up valley of this
stream which is walled in by a ridge of hills on
west, but is pretty open and undulating to east.
Patches of cultivation and little hamlets at inter
vals all along the stream. At 14 miles village of
Haruz is reached, situated on the stream. It is
only a small village, but there is a caravansarai.
No doubt a fair amount of supplies could be col
lected in the valley. There is a moderate amount
of tamarisk along the stream. The road was
good enough for guns with the exception of the
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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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