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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [122v] (249/739)
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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190
No. \Ql'~~conclct*
Karmanshah to Tehran, vid Besitun, Kangawar, tyc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate
Total.
Eeliaees.
or snow. After this the road leads across a fairly
flat valley o£ the Kara-chai (which is crossed by
a stone and brick bridge at the 12th mile).
Thence gradually up to the sarai, seen from afar
against the low ridge on which it is built, close-
to a small perennial stream.
14
15
16
Aliabad
Hasan a bad
T ehran
20
27b
24
261
On leaving sarai, road at once enters low range
(reaching the highest point at about 2^ miles,.
3,200'). Thence a gentle descent is made into
• a shallow valley, the road being on one straight
line for 11 miles, fairly good for wheeled trans
port. The lowest point is reached half-way
(2,760'). To the right the depression is at pre
sent covered by a salt lake extending at least
20 miles to the east. At 16 miles the sarai and
reached, with good
on the southern
volcanic range. From
mihmankhana of Kushk is
water abundant, situated
(3,100') slope of a low
here this range is entered, and the road winds
for 4 miles among the hills, being quite practice
able for wheels. At 20 miles on the northern
slope of this volcanic range the sarai and mih
mankhana of Aliabad are found, with abun
dance of water, prettily situated.
A track off the main road, along which runs the-
telegraph line, and which passes to the west of
a conspicuous hill, a mile north of the Aliabad
sarai, passes to the east of that hill for a mile or
two amon.^ raviny ground ; it then passes over
a shallow drainage, fairly smooth surface of mud,,
sand, and clay for 8 miles. Here the track
passes for 14 miles amidst stiff raviny ground,,
passing two large streams (at this time of the
year (February with 2' of water), the more
northern one at 20 miles over a good stone-
bridge, (3,100'). On leaving the high left bank of
this stream, the Darya-i-Shud an open plain is
entered, and 5 miles further are the sarai and
mihmankhana of Husanabad, both in good
repair. No village or other habitation
in
near.
Road first crosses over a low range, then makes,
for Tehran plain towards the gilded dome of
Shah Abdul Aziz.
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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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