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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎110v] (225/739)

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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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166
No. §§-~contd.
Katn to Shahraks, vici Oarmah, fyc.
No.
of
•tage.
Names of stages.
D istances
IN MILES.
Interne
diate.
GA l EMAB
Fandukt
Total.
ItaMlEKS.
45
16
61
which would go straight to Garmab or to Isfidin.
February 18th, thermometer, i a.m.,25 0 ;. 7 a.m.
33°. Buznabad contains 100 houses. Inhabi
tants, Arabs. They own 25 yoke of oxen, 200
camels, 2,500 sheep, 20 jaribs of gardens. The
maliyat is 200 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. , 5 kharwars of chaff. 4
kharwars of barley and 4 kharwars of wheat pro
curable. Water abundant.
Leave Buznabad, bearing 60°, and strike across
plain, descending gradually.
Soil gravelly and covered with "tirikh" a shrub
that forms good camel grazing:. At If miles
pass a few mounds on left. Country is undulat
ing; 200 to 300 sheep are grazing here. Grass
is just beginning to sprout (February).
At 82 miles pass a circular diameter, 4 yards.
Soil is here light and sandy. <ff Grhich " shrubs
now appear; good firewood.' Reported that in this
valley there are from 200 to 300 tents of Baheris
and Arabs.
Pass the Shor Rud at 12J miles. River-bed here
60 yards broad ; banks 20 feet hi^h with a difficult
path; swift stream, 15' by 1' in depth; brackish
but drinkable.
Road continues in direction of Shahaoz Kuh.
Cross a dry watercourse at 17^ miles and ascend
over low spurs.
Arrive at Garmab and camp. This is in the*
Zirkuh "buluk;" inhabitants Tajiks; 12 houses,
4 yoke of oxen ; just above village is a large
spring of clear warm water. A swift strean*
liows from it, 5 feet broad by 3 inches deep, and
/?r drinking. 18th February, barometer
Jo , 69 (9 p.m.)
Leave Garmab and traverse mountain spurs dia
gonally. Soil is a light clay. Road is stony and
crosses spurs at 3 miles; at 5 miles reach
highest point in pass. The Kuh-i-Shahaoz lies
about 2 miles to right. The road is practi
cable for all arms. Barometer 26'65 ,/ ; thermo
meter 25°. Here is plenty of "ghich " shrub,
rass a stream, at 5J miles, and some cultivation,
thence over nearly level ground. Shahaoz Kuh
on right is a solid wall of perpendicular rock,
some 4 000 odd feet above track. Here are low
spurs of red earth.
Down a rocky path at 7 milea. A little stream
3.t 7ig miles.

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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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