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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [156r] (316/739)
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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33
No, \ k >1 ~-~conid,
Mash ad to Hekat, fyc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
R bmaekb.
Total.
13
14
15
Shahbash
Eozanak
Shakiban and
Mamizak,
18
181
189
207
In consequence of the abnormally severe weather
between the 20tli March and 8th April, the rivers
became very much swollen and fordable with
difficulty, and the roads were knee-deep in mud.
Even on 18th April, at Tirpul " the roads were still
in places mere broad running streams, and the
soil a great quagmire, in which our horses fre
quently sank above their hocks, and could not
extricate themselves until the rider dismounted."
In fact an immense amount of damage was done
to houses and property. All this shows how
military movements on this line would be serious
ly inconvenienced by periodical bursts of bad
weather. (He made the distance 168 miles.)
* # * *
At about 2 miles river, taking a bend northward,
has eaten away right bank up to foot of outlying
spurs of plateau. The road therefore runs across
the spurs. With this exception the road from
Tirpul to Herat is perfectly practicable for all
arms and for wheeled transport: and, even here,
a Pioneer battalion would remove difficulties in a
few hours. From the Tirpul Valley, road runs
south by east to Shahbash, a fortified village
on slight eminence. It might be made key of
strong defensive position commanding passage of
Valley. A dense jungle, which is the sole source
of a plentiful supply of fuel, intervenes between
this place and spurs of the Sang-i-Dukhtar, dis
tant miles to south-west.
East by south skirting edge of plateau to left, and
to right cultivated fields extending to river's
bank, 2 to 3 miles distant. Several villages close
to river between last stage and this village,
which is situated about i mile to right, on south
of road and about 2 miles north of river. Coun
try on left bank of river between Zindajan and
Ghorian (some 8 miles south of Rozanak) is well
cultivated and has many villages, Kush Robat
hence is 38 miles distant.
At about 8J miles pass covered tank, full, in spring
and early summer, of good water. The combin
ed villages, forts and gardens of these places ex
tend for about 2 miles south-east from road
towards the Hari Kud. From Shahbash east
to Shakiban, land between road and river is almost
all under cultivation and much cut up by irriga
tion channels.
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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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