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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎85v] (175/739)

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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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116
No. 70— concld,
G hurt an io K arm an, vid Yazdan, fyc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
23
Sae-i-Asia
5,850'.
24
Kaeman
5,680'.
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
21
22
Total.
R bmakks.
452
474
kotal near Sar-i-Apsh which was rather stiff.
Kafilas said not to travel by this road from middle
of December till spring. Cold very great and
firewood is scarce. Last year a kafila A train of travellers; a caravan; or any large party of travellers. was snowed
up here for 20 days.
There is a direct road from here to Khabis which
runs up the Haruz valley.
There is also a direct road from here vid Sar-i-Apsh
across the Lut desert passing south of the Kuhi-
Murghab to Sar-i-Chah and Khusp. There is no
water on it between Sar-i-Chah and Sar-i-Apsh.
This road is only used by kafilas in spring.
Road leaves ""the main
and ascends steadily a
south among
lowish hills. After
stream at Haruz
road to
3 miles
winding
a kotal is reached, road up beinsr good. This is
a good deal the highest point yet reached on the
march, being 7,650 feet high. Fine high peak
standing to the west of kotal. Road then des
cends pretty rapidly to the S. E. for a mile, till it
gets into a main nala, where there is a small
hamlet with a little cultivation and a running
stream. It then descends bed of this stream with
high hills on either hand till 11 miles, where it
emerges into a very wide valley running N. W.
and S. E. dotted with villages. It runs over the
daman of the hills to the good-siz^d village of Hut
(17J miles). Passing this 3| miles further on in
same direction reached Sar-i-Asia, a small village
with good caravansarai. Sar-i-Asia is on the N",
edge of the wide and open valley which runs
from Karman vid Zarand to Yazd.
The road runs from Sar-i-Asia to S. E. between
some detached hills which are left to south and
the main range to north of the valley. Then
turning a little more south it runs straight to the
city. About half-way there is a curious rocky
hill to right, with the remains of fortifications
running all up the side. This road, after pass
ing through a quantity of ruins, enters the north
gate of the city.

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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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