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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [90r] (184/739)
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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125
No. 73— contd,
Hamadan io ZiNdjan, via KalajuM and Khoidar Paighamhar.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
ZlNPJAN
17
Total.
R emarks.
134
r
bearing north-east runs np valley of bare stony
hills close on either side of a stream,
6 hours.—V&ss out of the valley, stream is now on
left.
6\ -Village Khuramdarra in a little round
valley. Mound rear village, Ziarat 100 yards
beyond.
7 hours. —Stop at village (about 60 huts).
Start in northerly direction.
From the village, road gradually ascends. After J
mile it bifurcates, follow right and soon after
cross dry river-bed Road, which is very much
up and down* descends towards a valley, on the
far side of which is a range of mountains running
north-west and south-east. To east and west are
low rounded hills.
1 hour. —Cross small stream to right, group of
trees and village Khurdanab in hollow. Village
consists of about 30 huts and two water-mills.
l\ hours.'-Owev brow of low hills, a bare conical
peak stands out prominently to left front.
2 hours^Yvom brow of hill good view of billy
country sloping down to plain.
hours. —Stream flowing across the road, on th®
right it is banked up so as to form a small pond.
2} hours.-^-Croas river in deep ravine coming from
hills to the left. At present but little water, but
a large torrent after rains. On other side of river
village Rami, about 80 huts.
hours. —Cross river at bottom of deep ravine,
ground very broken about here by large twisted
volcanic rocks. Eoad at present good enough
for mules, but in wet weather would be very bad,
as several (now dry) mountain torrents from left
cross it. Bare conical peak, seen before, is now
just to the left of road which winds round it.
Looking down from the hill Zindjan 13
seen in the plain about miles distant in a north
west direction. To north-east this plain stretches
to foot of a range of mountains. Road now
descends down a valley which drains these hills
towards river. Hills are barren and round-topped f
here and there are patches of sickly wheat.
5i Aown?.—Reach gardens at outskirts of city, thera
is a river here with but little water at present, it
is crossed by a bridge, 40 yards long and 20 feet
broad, of brick with three pointed arches and ia
a good state of repair.
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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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