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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [104r] (212/739)
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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20
153
No. 83—
I sfahan to T abas, via
No.
D istances
in miles.
-
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
R emaees,
12
Rizab
3,750'.
29
217
Road follows a great ravine for many miles,
and this ravine is the only spot where there
would be any difficulty with guns. Whole
road from Isfahan to Mashad is perfectly prac
ticable for guns. At 7th mile road from
Yazd joins in. At 9th mile a spring known as
Deh-Kalli. At 12th mile leave ravine and
march over a barren plain. At 29th mile sarai
of Rizab. Water brackish.
18
Saugand oe Su-
kanb.
4,070'.
13
230
Over the usual desert. Sukand is a small Village
with fresh water, a half-ruined fort, and a fine
sarai. Cf. Route No. 243, stage 2.
14
Pusht-i-Babam
4,270'.
♦
38
268
A terrible descent for 14 miles to ruined vil
lage of Allahabad, where there is a fine sarai
and a deep Well with brackish water. Then
across a kavir or salt desert for many miles. At
last an open pass through low hills is reached.
This extends for 3 miles : then a bare stony plain
and then wretched village of Pusht-i-Badam
with its bad sarai and brackish water.
15
Robat-i-Khan
3,970'.
39
307
This is the worst march on the whole route.
Over the desert for 4j miles, where a poor little
hamlet and tower with a spring of brackish
water is passed. At 18 miles a tower with a fine
dry reservoir, built on a small ridge, which forms
the dividing line between the governments
of Yazd and Khorasan. Road now goes
through very bad sand dunes. At 24 miles
ascends a low rocky ridge. At 32 miles a tiny
spring of good water, known _ as Chashma
Shutaran, near tower. Road continues over plain
with patches of heavy sand, then through open
pass with low hills for 2 miles.
Robat-i-Khan is a fine sarai; brackish water in a
spring close by.
16
Jafaec oeJafa-
kabad,
28
335
Over rough and desert country, crossing rough part
known as Tang-i-Dei. Fairly fertile village j 60
inhabitants.
17
Chahabdeh ...
2,470'.
28
363
At 12 miles Shorab ; 14 hours to this place;
800 inhabitants in the four hamlets. W ater
fresh and good.
18
Tabas
2,370'.
10
373
Town, 5,000 inhabitants.
The route between Isfahan and Tapas is quite
impracticable for an army, as there is not suffi
cient water at each stage to supply even a small
body of troops.
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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)
- Arrangement
The volume contains an alphabetical cross index (folios 6-17), and an alphabetical index to names of places (folios 18-25).
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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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