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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎110r] (224/739)

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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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165
No. QS^contd.
Kain to Shahraks, via Garmdb, 8fc.
No.
of
Names of stages.
D istances.
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
bbmabes.
Nasirabad at 7^ miles (12 houses), and a little
further on a small fort. Here a road turns off
to right to Khunik, a large village not far off.
At 8^ miles cross the Rud-i-JKhunik. Eiver-
hed is 150 yards broad with perpendicular clay
banks. The water (brackish) is at present 15
feet broad by 8 inches deep, now somewhat
swollen from melting snow. It is also called
the Shor Rud. Follow down stream ; on rio-ht
is a rocky hill. At miles the country is very
bare, no grazing or firewood. Leave river, which
bears 100°, winding through low hills, and bear
north up dry watercourse, 40 yards broad, flanked
by low red clay hills ; at 10 miles leave water
course, which bears 353°.
At 10| miles cross alow neck into another valley.
Road good, then down a rather steep path, but
practicable for all arms.
Cross another spur at 11 miles and then ascend
dry bed of stream. Rocky yellow hills with
sub-soil of clay on either side.
Ravine narrows at 12^ miles and passes between
high rocky cliffs. This is the pass of Changkalak.
Heights are accessible to infantry. Breadth of
ravine, 20 yards.
Crests of hills on either side are f mile apart, but
their spurs of yellow rock and clay narrow the
pathway to 10 feet. Ascend gradually.
At 14 miles reach summit of Changkalak pass.
Approximate elevation, 5,425 feet.
Path needs widening for guns. At 15 miles,
soil easy.
Enter a hollow with cultivation at 16J miles.
In front is a precipitous mountain, the Kuh-i-
Mayer.
Gradual descent at 17| miles.
Cross a spur at 18^ miles and enter very wild rocky
glen.
Kuh-i-Mayer bears 320°. At 20f miles, down a
dry watercourse. At 21i miles, 80 yards broad,
rocky hills on both sides.
At 22f miles leave the watercourse, which runs out
into the plain. Bearing 110° is the lofty Kuh-
i-Shahaoz beyond the plain. The track is now a
narrow rocky path ; thence across low regular
spurs of the Kuh-i-Mayer.
Path narrow at 23f miles with boulders; would re
quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. widening for guns.
Over a mass of boulders at 24| miles.
Reach Buznabad. Approximate elevation, 4,072
feet. This is not the direct route to Shahraks

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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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