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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [121r] (246/739)
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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187
No. 102.
K aemanshah to T ehran, via Besilun, Kangawar y Farispa, Ahingaran, Kum
and Rasanahad,
Authority — S awyer, 1890.
No.
Names of stages.
D istances
ik miles.
0
of
stage.
[nterme-
diate.
Total.
H emabks.
1
2
B esitun
S ahna
K angawae
21
15
16
36
52
i See Route No. 227, stages 18 to 15. Taj lor's
y distances differ from these (56 to Kangawar in-
| stead of 52).
3
P arispa
(F abasbhb ?)
21
73
Track througli heavy snow across level plain bear
ing east. -A 14 miles cross stream over brick bridge,
seven arches, near villages Kucha and Mailabad.
A mile further enter a commencement of a long
valley between low hills, the top of which is
reached, indicated by an almost imperceptible
divide, at 12 miles. Here enter into another
valley, water shedding east. Cross this valley,
and at 15^ miles, at Haisabad, commence a
moderate rise for 1| miles to the divide (5,590').
Then along slope of hill for 4 miles to Parispa.
The road leads over the Bakarabad divide, but Parispa
could be reached by an almost level line from the
5,120' divide, the first come to on the road, by follow
ing the watercourses leading eastward beyond the
low mud range between it and Parispa, for the
latter place is on a river which accepts the Bakar
abad watercourse. The detour may, however, bo
hardly worth the trouble, and the Bakarabad Kotal
is evidently better suited for a main traffic, as be
yond are wealthier low-lying valleys. The kotal
could be easily cut through or reached at low
inclines by^ hugging the mud hillocks to the
north. Parispa would seem an obligatory point
as from it exists the best line to reach the central
plateau.
4
H amilabad
6,200'.
12
85
On leaving the village, cross river (brick and stone
bridge). Making up a long, flat, slightly rising
valley straight east for six miles, half-way reaching
a kotal (5,750'). Hamilabad is seen nearly on
the same, bearing 6 miles off in a low mud hill-
locked valley.
5
N anaj
18
103
General direction due east. On leaving ascend
small pass over mud hills, top reached at 2J miles.
Steeper descent for a mile to foot of hill. At
5 miles pass small village Askhabad, whence
track goes across a flat valley here about 6 mi let*
wide. At 9 miles reach Husenabad. Hence
road straight for another low kotal at 11 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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