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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎148r] (300/739)

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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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31
Ml
No. 182— contd*
Mashad to Bujnuhd, vid Gunabad and Kuchan*
No.
diatanoes
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of fltages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
RHUJLEKff.
*
from the Kub-i-Khusbgha Kia A deputy or lieutenant of the governor in Ottoman Iraq, with additional responsibilities as a high-ranking provincial judge. j crossing tlie
valley joins the northern range, and forms the
watershed line of the Atrak and Tegeu ; country
cultivated extensively without irrigation. At
9 miles pass large village Sarkhan of 80 to 100
houses, half mile right; small hamlets at base
of both ranges of hills, and plain dotted with
nomad camps. At 16 miles reach town of
Kuchan, lying due north-west of Jafarabad,
at foot of northern range. Supplies good and
water plentiful. From Dautli, a, village 16
miles hence, can be easly distinguished on the
opposite or southern slope of the valley, the
large villages of Doghai and Beshaghach,
through which runs one of the several roads
to Nishabur and Sabzawar.
7
Faizabab #f .
18 =
far.
116|
Over level cultivated plain. Jafarabad, 8 miles ;
Farij, 50 (?) houses, 14 miles; Faizabad, large
village, 60 houses ; supplies plentiful.
8
Shibwan
12 =
3 far.
1291
Over level plain, well irrigated and cultivated; road
level and good. Shirwan, walled town of 1,000
houses, or 6,000 souls. Supplies and water plen
tiful. See Index,
9
Chinaban
:!
22
151J
Leave Shirwan by S. W. gate, and turn W. up val
ley, passing through well irrigated and cultivated
plain ; at half mile, road down valley of Garma-
khan strikes off right, bearing N. W. to narrow
pass closed by fort of Hizabad, distant 8 to 10 milfis
(an alternative road to Bujnurd). Large village of
Ziarat, 2 miles, N. side of valley, shrine and
Imamzada ; at 2 miles cross stream of Kuchan
(Atrak) flowing in deep bed with steep gravelly
banks, passable at all times, both banks about
equal heights and approaches level. At 2 miles
pass Kara Kazan spring, by local repute highest
source of Atrak, flowing even in seasons of severest
drought. Thence road approaches hillskirts.
Pass at 3 miles village Husenabad of 100 houses \
at 5 miles road passes through low, rocky hills
known as the Panj Baradaran, and ascends by
easy undulations over open plateau to foot of
pass, 9 miles. At 9-| miles rise 450 feet, reach
crest of pass and enter plateau of Hazar Jarib,
10 miles by 25 miles, draining N. into Garma-
khan. Left 2 miles, village and gardens of
Zubaran, 150 houses; descend 200 feet to
stream; draining plateau, village Abdulabahad,
1 mile right on bank stream; cross stream and

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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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