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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [105r] (214/739)
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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No. 85— -conid.
Jajarm to Astrabid^ via Naodeh,
No.
D isiances
in miles.
of
&tage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
B bmabks*
plain, distant 3 J^civsctJcfisy cind known a.s
Murtaza Ali Maidan. Cross plateau W. and
at 21 miles enter glen. Two miles to the right a
mule-path leads over the hills to Kalpush and
Gurgan in the Gurgan plain. At 23 miles pass
through narrow defile between masses of trap
rock, known as Sang Surk, and bj easy ascent
reach a plateau, broken by low hilis. On north
and at 27 miles bend west to Nardin, and descend
into basin, 6 or 8 miles by 3 or 4> y surrounded
by high mountains, towards the west end of
which lies the fort of Nardin, a small mud-walled
enclosure with high thin walls and circular bas
tions, defended by three light field guns. Sup
plies scanty. Eoad good, except for half a mile
at the Sang Surk Pass ; guns might be driven
to Nardin, and at that point a little labour would
render the path practicable. No water, save a
brackish spring at Sang Surkh, after leaving the
village of Darra.
2
K anchi
23
53
Leaving Nardin Fort, cross open plain W. for
half a mile ; thence W. N. W. to foot of
hills at 6 miles. Thence up rugged hills of
limestone and trap over fair bridle road, with
easy ascent to crest of ridge at 7 miles. Ascent
1.500'. Thence easy descent into glen leadino-
down to valley of Naodeh, tributary of th^ Gur
gan. At 8 miles reach stream, village Tulbin,
1 mile right up stream. The ascent and descent
of this pass are both easy ; 30 guns were taken
over it by the Si pah Snlar some years ago ; they
were dragged, but with a little labour might
have been driven. The hill-side is of friable
traps and trap tufts, soft clays and marls.
Follow Naodeh stream S. W., the road good,
and keeping above and to the right side of
stream. Hill side soft. Guns might follow bed
of stream, or road if widened in parts. At 11
miles pass village Gulistan, 30 houses. At 13
miles pass village Chinask, 200 houses (with
hamlets), on hill-side above stream, left.
Through Chinask lies a road, over a high shoulder
of Khushailak Mountain to Bostan, by which
guns have been brought to Nardin. At 21 miles
valley opens out and bends W. A stretch of
well cultivated ground, half a mile in width,
extends thence to 23 miles, where on a sub-
tributary from N. E. is Karachi Pursian, one of
three hamlets, known collectively as Pursian
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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).
- 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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