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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎143v] (291/739)

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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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233
No. 129-
KtSUK VALLEY TdKBAT-I-ShEKH JAM.
Jarhority—N AP1ER,
lISTANCBS
r-MT •m'TT.TOS.
EBMABKS,
T utachi
Gitlbah
UOBAT-I -SUBKn
3,450'.
17
16
Leaving Khwajag.r march across the chul
nearly due west till at 6 miles the valley of the
Mosrhor reached. Turn up the Moghor valley
and pass a settlement at some 14| miles, of 20 or
30 Jamshedi huts . ,
Reach camp at a place called Sar.i-Chashma, just
below this is a pond and a fine flat turf carapmg-
eround Water plentiful, but considerably pol
luted by sbeep. At Moghor, 7th September,
maximum temperature 9H •
Leaving Moghor cross the " cbul by a very sandy
road. Extremely heavy going for baggage animals.
Road descends over open downs cross a branch
of tbe Moghor valley. Pass a Jamshedi settlement
of 64 " Kibitkas" scattered over a wide area.
Here melons are extensively cultivated and some
wheat also. .
On the left of the road is a walled enclosure con
taining one or two mud huts. „ . . . >
Camp at Tutachi oil a broad grass flat between two
2ood harez streams, at the foot of rising ground
on either side. Good camping-ground.
Tutachi to Gulran. , ,
Leaving camp, continue over the chul, road rathei
^mile's cross the vallev of the Shor-rud. Here is
a village, now deserted, and a stinking swamp.
Continue over undulating country reach Gulrau.
Here tbe country is much flatter. Tbe campm -
ground is a fine stretch of turf. Tbere isadnty
swampy stream of fresh water, at winch thou
sands of sheep are watered daily. No village here.
The shepherds are Afghans.
61 Gulran to Rohat-i-SurJch. ,
Leaving Gulran and take a general direction o£
S. W. traverse a flat open plam towards the a-
rapomisus range. On both sides of the track aie
some low detached hills. Track very uncertain
practically going across country. f."
ter hills where the range is lowest. ^
up a stony ravine down which runs a .a
stream some 4 feet wide by *2 inches d®^.
Pass a tiny freshwater spring, 114 miles. &
on either side are easily accessible. >
124 path turns off a grassy ravine. On the
right is a high cliff striped grey and biown
most peculiar way. , A • oovlh
I3f miles path now very narrow, shut
slopes on either side. Would have to b
14 mfeTreach top of th3 pass. Here is a flat sward.
15 miles road now crosses a series of stony spui ,
extending from the heights on the leit.

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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)
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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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