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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎103v] (211/739)

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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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152
No. 83.
I sfahan to T abas, via ArdaJcan, Suhand, and Chahar-Deh.
Authority — S tewart ; S ykes.
No.
of
stage.
4
6
6
7
8
9
10
11
Names of stages.
H abba
Vartan
Fashark
6,030'.
Mushkinan
Bilabad
6,870'.
Bambiz
Nao qumbaz
4,230'.
Chah-Nao
Sarb
Ardakan
3,330'.
IIOMAN
Distances
in miles.
fnterme
diate.
11
18
18
25
11
12
13
12
17
35
Total.
29
45
63
88
99
111
124
136
153
188
Eemaeks.
Direetion north-east. Good road. A very wretch
ed caravansarai; village of 20 houses on a hanat.
Hence there is a road through low hills to Khasat-
rash village (50 houses) on a kanat at 14 miles,
thence to Bakum village (40 houses) on a kanat
at 22 miles, and thence to Ardistan, 18 miles.
Direction east. At 2^ miles cross a small stream
of good water; the rest of the way over a salt
desert. Vartan is a small village with g-ood
water*.
Skirt the rauge of hills north of road. At 6
miles a haoz of sweet water. From this point a
road turns off to Ardistan through Zifra. At
12 miles approach the hills. Fashark is a pretty
village among orchards, with about 400 inhabit
ants.
Through partly cultivated country. Mushkinan-
is a very ruinous place.
A miserable village, 15 miles from Nain.
Through Kudunu. Bambiz is a village of 500
inhabitants.
Through a barren country. Caravansarai and
post-house.
A fine caravansar^i and covered tank; the latter
empty. No sweet water available.
Road now leaves the Yazd route and goes
through fertile country to the pretty village of
Sarb.
Through fairly fertile country to Ardakan. 20,000
inhabitants. Walled town with ditch. Connects
with Section I.
For the first few miles cultivation, then bare
desert for hundreds of miles, with only a few
villages here and^there. At the 12th mile, the
hills approach the road, and at the 13th, the
Haoz-i-safed is reached. Here there are three re
servoirs, but very little water. At 22 miles leave
the plain and march by a wide open pass through
the hills. At 27 miles a spring of sweet water
and a ruined caravansarai. At 33 miles the
country opens out. Homan is a little village of
20 houses.
• Note,—Sykes gives the following
Naistauak ... ...
Kaisar ...
Yartan
tom
14 milesj level road : 100 houses.
15 „ hilly road; village on a Kanat,
29

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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)
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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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