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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [87r] (178/739)
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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119
No. 72— concld.
G iumish T apa to A strabad.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
E emaeks.
Total.
A stuabad
12
25
bed is now some 10 or 15 feet above the present
level of the water. After that the river conti
nued to flow in two channels, one to Khoja
Nafas and one to Gumish Tapa, till within the
last eight years when the latter branch ran dry.
There are three bridges now across the river, one
at Ak Kala, Persian fort garrisoned by 300
Saihazes and 20 gunners, one at this village and
one at Obah-i-Haji Muhammad Khan, about four
miles further down. The two latter are both
slight wooden structures built on high piles and
stretch across on a level with the banks. They
were erected by a carpenter from Astrakhan at a
cost, it is said, of only 250 tumans each. The
piles are said to have been 10J zars (3| feet=
1 zar) in length, of which 4j are sunk in the bed
of the river and 6 are above it, and the bridge
is said to be 55 zars in length and 4 (14 feet) in
breadth.
The river here runs between perpendicular banks
some 20 feet below the level of the plain. There
is nothing to mark the course of the river, and
so sudden is the drop that a hundred yards otf
no one could tell that the river was near.
Pass the little bridge over the Karasu, 5 miles
out, which river forms the limit of Tamut
territory in this direction. The river, however,
could hardly be dignified by that name, as the
channel was dry and mostly overgrown with
grass and only some 15 feet broad and 4 or 5
feet deep.
Beyond, pass through level plain, mostly covered with
reeds and quite uncultivated for another 4 miles,
and then pass the villages of Kala and Zangi
Mahalla to Astrabad.
The difference between Astrabad and Mashad at
this time of the year is very great. Here orange
and lime trees are in full fruit, and the oaks
have not ygt shed their leaves. The sun by day
is hot at times, and yet, only a few hundred feet
up, the hillsides are all covered with snow.
The country is wonderfully green all round, and
though the^ town is deep in mud, still the
temperature is pleasant, and were it not for the
mud the place might be a pleasant winter resi
dence.
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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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