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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [136v] (277/739)
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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418
No. l^O—-
Khur to Kain, via Chahah,
No.
of
stage.
Namea of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Eemaeks.
Total.
16
SOI
At 161- miles bearing to the Kuh-i-Kuru 340°.
PlougMng going on here on both sides of road
up the slope. Some 12 yoke of oxen.
Ascent commences to be steep at 20 miles.
At 20| miles reach Kalata Chahak (5 houses). Road
now winds up a narrow ravine with a small stream,
a high rocky hill on right, and low hillocks on left.
Keach Kalata Sar-i-Ab of Sarab, situated at head
of the ravine near top of pass. Track passable
for all arms, with a little widening. Here is a
village with some 30 houses. Supplies procurable.
Water in abundance. February 13th, barometer
25 , 95' / , thermometer 26°.
Leave Sarab, bearing 360°, road turning off to left,
along the flat and then up a narrow ravine with
sides of sloping earth.
Reach top of pass at If miles by an easy gradient.
Road passable for all arms, only below Sarab a
little work would be necessary, easily done to the
soft earth.
Approximate elevation of top of pass, 6,554/. A
good deal of snow lying in pass though heights
are not completely covered with snow.
At 4| miles a gradual descent. The ravine gets
a little wider, until at 4i miles the breadth across
the bottom is 60 yards.
Pass a kalata on the left with six houses at 5^
miles: at 6 miles reach a Jcanat stream and a
small pool; here are gardens and below is another
kalata close under a spur stretching across path.
Road turns off at 6f miles under an imposing
pinnacle of rock. Here is a stream, 2' broad
by 1' deep. Near the kalatas are a few fruit trees
and willows. * .
Saffron is cultivated here, and there are more fruit
trees and gardens. Pass, at 7 J miles, the Kalata
Khurnecy (40 houses, 30 yoke of oxen, 1 water-
mill). From here is almost continuous cultiva
tion down the valley.
Valley, at 8f miles, J mile broad. Pass a kalata of
houses, and a small fort, sides 40 yards.
six
Country now bare on emerging on to plain.
At 10J miles road runs parallel with a rocky spur,
200 yards to right; range on the left is some
3 miles off, descending by a gentle slope.
Spur on right ends at 10| miles. Some 4 miles on
are four rocky hills extending from 20° to 100 ^
Pass a haoz in good repair at llf miles ; at 12?
miles a dry watercourse joins road, coming from
direction of 130°, On right, at 14| miles, are
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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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