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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎111v] (227/739)

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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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168
No. QS'—concld.
K atn to S hahraks, vid Garmah, fyc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
iw miles.
E hmaeks.
fnterme*
diate.
Total.
Shaheaks
2,(539'.
h|«
00
90
Approximate altitude of camp, 3,909 feet. Height
of Shahaoz Kuh by clinometer, above camp=
5,483 feet, hence total height of Shahaoz Kuh,
9,392 feet. Barometer 27'36''; thermometer 27°
at 12 a.m ., February 22nd.
Leave Bamrud, bearing 100°, and follow well-beaten
track up a gradual incline along base of the Kuh-
i-Bamrud; soil gravelly; at 4| miles pass a haoz- f
tirikh " grows all about here, fit for camel
grazing. Reach the fort or walled village of
Shahraks. It lies on ground sloping down from
the Kuh-i-Bamrud on north to valley of the
Ahingaran range. Its walls are in fair repair,
about 20 feet high, and 2 to 3 feet thick. The sides
are 150 yards and 200 yards and are flanked by
towers at the corners and in centre. Water-supply
comes from one deep-dug Jcarez from Kuh.i-Bam-
rud. Below village are extensive walled gardens.
It is on the main route from Birjand to Herat.
Inhabitants are Tajiks.
Shahraks contains 100 houses, 15 yoke of oxen, 500
sheep : February 22nd, 2 p. m ., barometer 27*39";
thermometer 56°,
No. 94.
K alat-i -N abiri to B ajgirha (P ersian), via Chapashlu and Michammadahad.
Authority — Y ate , S eptember 1894.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
E bmibkb.
Interme-
diate.
Total.
1
C habam ...
6
•••
The village lies some 2 miles to the south higher
up the nullah at the point where the direct road and
telegraph line to Igdalik cross it. Road leads
over undulating hills covered with grass.
At top of ascent, some 4 miles from Kalat, road
to Archengan branches off down a valley to the
right, round western end of the Kalat scarp. A
path also leads up from the same place into
Kalat.

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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.

Extent and format
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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