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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [149v] (303/739)
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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2:44
No. 13^— contd\
M ashad to D aragaz, vid Gun abaci, Radfcan and Ch apislilu.
Nx).
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
Kkik Y USUF
Khan.
Tubii>
25
131
Chapishlu
21
77
R emaees.
very rarely seen in Asia. The water there is
very near the surface of the soil, and breaks out
everywhere in small streams and streamlets.
Here all the artillery horses of Khorasan ar©
sent to graze. There is a road straight over the
mountains from liadkan to Daragaz, but it is
passable only for pedestrians and horsemen. It
is too bad for a loaded mule.
North over level pasture land for some miles.
Thence, passing the villages Deh-i-Zadis, Abshor
2 miles farther, Dautli 4 miles farther, whence
2 miles to Kala Yusuf Khan, a large village of
150 houses of Kiwanlu Kurds. Supplies, etc. r
ample.
Follow stream, tributary of the Atrak (bere 10 or
12 feet by 2, but said to be not perennial) east-
north-east to the village of Badkhur, 5 miles,
situated at the head of the valley, and at en--
trance of a defile.
At 6 miles enter defile, narrow, and completely
commanded by low rocky hills, and follow wind
ings of stream, keeping a north-easterly direc
tion. At 8J miles pass hamlet of Fanau, 13
houses. At lOf miles defile opens out to half a
mile, with a long stretch of cultivation, in centre-
of which stands village of Tavari. Two small
streams flow in on left, and main valley divides
east and north. From the west flows a small
stream, draining the Daulatkhana plateau. Koacfc
passing over low spur behind Tavari, follows east
branch of valley due eastto Tubil (13i miles), a
small Kurd hamlet of 10 families. Supplies pro
curable. From Badkhur to Fanau and Tavari, 4
miles, the defile is narrow, and traversed by a
winding stream, with 2' or 3' of water, and
a muddy bottom for the most part; guns might
pass with a little labour. Thence, to Tubil, the
road is open and good.
Leave valley, north-east up lateral glen ; road steep
and rugged, and impassable for guns. Camels are
said to go, and guns have been taken round along
ditour up the valley to a point where the hill is
less rocky, though steeper (Maidan Khana pass,
900 feet), three or four light guns were dragged
by hand.
Ascending glen for 2 miles, reach plateau of
Maidan Khana. Thence across easy undulations
east-north-easfc, and at 3 miles descend north-east
into^ narrow defile, following small stream. At
() miles pass througb gap in main chain, known
as Parband-i-Kibkan, and enter the open'
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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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