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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [88r] (180/739)
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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16
121
No. 73—
Hamadan to Zindjan, vidKalajulch Khoidar
No.
of
@tage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in mjle8.
Intenne-
diate.
Total.
3
;
K alajukh
16
47
6 miles off with a distant range beyond. The
whole of the country is cultivated or fallow with
a certain amount of waste land covered with
coarse grass on which the flocks graze. Road
broad and good,
f hour. — Koad winds round more north-east^
Road from left rear joins on here.
li tor.—Large dry karez running across plain.
Direction 34)5°. Country here all flat waste
land.
2 Road branching off to right to a vil
lage at the foot of hills, cross small canal, wheat
very fine.
2\ hours, —-Village Shahbai 1 mile right, large
mound with ruined mud wall and lime kiln near
it.
hours, —Reached ruins of Amirabad; present
village is just north of ruins (about 100 houses).
Aowr^.—Road passes over tunnel, through
which canal water flows. Breadth of road here
15 feet. Banks of canal steep and 12' high.
Water at present 2' deep and 4' broad.
4 hours. —Village Aktapa. See Index.
Stage 2 : about 80 houses, remains of old fort; thig
is the regular manziL
Abroghan, a small , village of 40 houses, 2
miles further on, near a small canal.
Start north-north-west.
Several ranges of hills bound plain to north and
north-east. To north-west there are no hilb |
two villages at foot of hills to north-east.
J hour. —Crossed canal by similar tunnel to yestei-
day. Direction 355° towards the higher range
of hills.
f —Trees and village Kabaktapa, 5 miles.
Direction 295°.
hours. — Reached foot of first range of hills and
ascend by good road at easy gradient.
2\ Reached top of hills. A valley, with
hills rising here and there, stretches to foot of
mountains. Village Tapa-i-Dabil 2 ^ miles north.
Village Bawa Nazar 3J miles. Direction 10°.
Village Khainak, 6 miles, 340°.
This valley, lying between hills, narrows off toward#
west. To east it widens out into large well cul
tivated plain, stretching for about 30 miles and
bounded by hills. Cultivation nearly all wheat.
All the villages, however, have small fruit gar
dens and a few trees.
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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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