'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [130v] (265/739)
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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206
No. 114— concld,
K haiuabad to B ujnurd.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istancbs
in milks.
B buasxs.
Interme
diate
Total.
4
Bpjnued
10
51
and Bujnurd. The slopes of the Takraaran valley
are cultivated for rain crops, but the more level
bit in the centre, known as the Chul -i-Takmamn,
is left for grazing. The whole valley looks very
bare at this time of the year, as there is not a
sign of anything green about it. Ascend the
slopes on the southern side to the village of Chahar
Burj at the 5th mile.
This is not the Chahar Burj marked on the map,
as it lies nearly on the top of the hills to the
west of the village of Surazu {vide sheet No. 2).
Here first met the Shadenlus. Leaving here on
another mile to the top of the hills, a rise from the
valley of some 1,100 feet, and thence a steep
descent for 3 miles to the village of Hammami,
and then down a ravine to the Garmakhan valley
below. The river Atrak crossed by a wooden
bridge at Garmakhan village, the river running
here between high steep banks and being some 25
or 30 feet wide, and 2 or 3 feet in depth.
Garmakhan is a small level valley, containing
some half dozen villages with a total of about
150 families of Shadanlu Kurds, and is well
watered from the Atrak. Temperature at 4
p .M. 76°.
Road leads over the low hills to the south-west
of the Garkm^khan valley. Thence strike the
Bujnurd stream (here some 10 feet broad and 2
feet in depth) and follow the banks of that
stream through the hills and emerge on the
Bujnurd plain.
Bujnurd ^ stands in the centre of a circular valley
containing about a dozen villages with fine hills
all round and a plentiful supply of water, and the
view from the top of the Chief's garden-house is
green and pretty.
The town of Bujnurd is said to have a population
of 10,000 people, the estimate in the Gazetteer
of 1,500 houses is nearer the mark.
Bujnurd is simply a large open village, with a
long bazaar in the centre, but it has no trade to
speak of, and the shops are simply sufficient to
supply local wants.
See Index.
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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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