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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [94v] (193/739)
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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154
No. 76— concld.
I sfahan to G ulpaigan.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istawces.
in milbs.
Interme'
diate.
remaeks,
Total.
the left hand ; for on the opposite side there are
the usual low barren hills. Beyond pass an
Iroamzada with a fishpond. A level road thenca
to Gulpaigan, 2 farsakhs beyond and front
JKhonsa. After threading a ruinous mass of
suburbs full of pitfalls and broken kanats, road
emerges into a large square. See gazetteer. Cf.
also Route No. 80, stage 6.
Colonel Bell gives the following route betweens
Gulpaigan and Ispahan.
1
K honsa
...
18
Vide Index.
2
3
Mian-Dasht or
D umekamar.
Akhora Bala...
15
16
sa
48
A yillage containing^ about 2,000 inhabitants,,
whence there is a summer route to Dizful via
Bazuft. This route is said to be 11 stages or
47 farsalchs. Pasture and firewood are plentiful
along it, but there are no villages, and the road
is almost impracticable for troops.
4
K oighan
...
19
67
A small village.
5
I mamzada
mail.
Is-
17
84
A Bakhtiari village, in a well cultivated thongb
treeless valley. From here Ali-Kuh on tha
Isfahan-Shustar road can be reached in two stages-
(16 farsakhs). The road to Isfahan lies along
the left bank of the Zaindarud.
6
Chadegun
t • •
17
101
A large village, the head-quarters of an unmobi-
lised infantry ragiment.
7
A B - i -P ina
• ••
24
125
A small village. The Zaindarud goes off to the-
south before reaching this point.
8
Najafabad
29
154
A largish tillage, with a good bazaar. Connects-
with Section I. Cf. also Koute No. 80,. stage 1.
9
Isfahan
17
171
Through a richly cultivated plain. The route
taken by Major Bell through Khonsa and
Imamzada Ismail is of no importance, except
perhaps the bit between the latter place and
Isfahan. The rest of the road is merely a mule-
track, skirting the Bakhtiari hills.
The route has been entered as the stages taken
may be useful to future travellers in these parts-
Full details will be found in Major Bell's report.
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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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