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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [144r] (292/739)
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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283
No. 129— contd.
K ushk valley to T urbat-i- S hekh J am.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istawces
lir miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
K amani.i- B i-
hisht.
3,089',
205
81i
Chashma Amie-
i-Panj.
881
R bmabks.
Reach a fresh spring in the bed of a rocky ravine
A narrow strip of turf along the hanks of the
stream gives just room to camp.
The stream is very small and is exhausted 200
yards lower down. The Robat-i Surkh is U
miles further on, but there is no water there now.
The ravine with camping-ground is a deep rockv
gully with steep sides 150 feet deep and 150
yards across, and stony uplands on either
side.
P erso-Afg han frontier.
Leaving the ravine bed ascend to the level of the
downs, following the left side of the gully. 1*
miles pass the ruins of Robat-i-Surkh, once a
tine caiavansaiai, built of red bricks, After cross
ing level uplands, come onto ground broken up
into reddish clay conical hillocks, 2| miles
Road descends a ravine at 3 miles. Here are
shrubs fit for firewood.
At4i miles over a nearly level plain sloping ^entlv
to the west. Hills on the right. Shrubs here also.
miles join a well-marked track which is said to
come from Gulran and to be a better if not short-
er road than the one described above. It seems
parallel with the hills and about 1 mile from
their base.
15|- miles, road very sandy.
16| miles, hills on the left j low ridge on the right.
I84 miles, cross two ridges of red earth, the second
forms the bank of the Hari Rud.
18| miles, reach the flat valley of the river.
Reach frontier, camp by the side of the river bed,
now dry, with the exception of pools of salt
water ^ at intervals. Here is a thick belt of
tamarisk. There is no village or collection of
huts visible Presumably this place is called
Kaman-i-Bihisht" (the bow of heaven) be-
cause the river takes a bend here. The water in •
the pools is just drinkable. In the evening some
better water was brought from a place about 2
miles off.
Follow down the Hari Rud along the bed of the
river for about 4 miles. The river wincls very
much, and estimate of the distance in this march
is vague. Plenty of tamarisk shrub and jungles
on both sides. Then turn up the Jam river,
a stream about 20 feet wide and 1 foot deep with
a good flow of fresh water. The baggage ani
mals took a direct route to camp which was
estimated at 7 miles. There is a fort a little
below camp, which looks in gook order but is not
inhabited. The Chashma Amir-i-Panj is a tiny
su
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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).
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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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