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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [154v] (313/739)
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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254
No. \Zl^contd,
M ashad to H erat, Sfc.
No.
of
stage.
Distancbs
in miles.
Namei of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Bsmabej,
to Turbat ; the southern of which is the wet
weather road and passes through no cultiva
tion. For last four miles road bordered on left
by broad irrigation channel and cultivated land.
At 2| miles from town, road divides into two, one
entering by the north and the other by the
south side. Water good and abundant. Sup
plies plentiful ; good grazing. Hasanabad is a
village, three or four miles east, and Kadirabad
one about five miles north of Turbat. Village of
Bizd, 12 miles south-west. See Route No. 136>
Stage 6.
9
Mohsinabad ...
25
135
No water between this and last stage except per
haps after heavy rain ; it can be obtained from
the Rnd-i-Rawask (four or five miles to south
east). Direction of road from Turbat south-east by
south. From here, there is a road northward to
Shahr-i-Nao, whence there is a direct road to
Faraiman.
Mohsinabad is a small walled village (150 or
160 families); water s:ood and plentiful.
Branch road by this place rejoins main road from
Turbat to Karez about 2J miles north-west of
this place. Detachment of Persian troops
here.
10
Kaeez
7
142
Karez consists of a fort with houses, gardens, etc.,
(about 150 families). Water good and abundant.
Supplies procurable. Persian frontier post with
a resident district governor.
Direction of road south-east. The direct road from-
Turbat and that from Mohsinabad meet at 5th
mile. At 6th mile cross irrigation channel.
See Index.
^ ^
MacGregor makes Faraiman the 2nd stage (411
miles) and thence gives the following route to
Karez -
3
Gaodossi m .
7
48J
The road goes over a plain for 3 miles to the
Band-i-Fariman, a large dam across the valley
constructed to raise the water of the stream an(J
make it available for irrigation. It is strongly
built of stone and brick, and is about eighty
yards across, 12 feet wide at the top, and
about 50 feet high. It is now partially ruined.
Thence four miles over a plain, village of
Gaodosha. There was but little of a village
herein 1875, as the Turkomans had by succes
sive raids carried off almost all the inhabitants.
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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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