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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎157r] (318/739)

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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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259
No. 138— eontd.
Mashad to Kalat-i-Nadirt, via Kardeh and Wardi.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
KEtfABRS.
W aedi
28
52
west half a mile to Kardeh, a small village of 20
or 30 houses, the property of the Khan of Chulai.
Supplies procurable in abundance with notce.
Road a fair bridle-path, which might be miade
easily practicable for guns. Ascent from Mash
ad about OOO'. MacGregor makes the distance-
23 miles and mentions having passed villages of
Darveh and Faragir.
From Kardeh follow stream up a narrow tortuous
defile, winding from north-west to north and east-
north-east and shut in by high inaccessible cliffs,
leaving a passage, frequently less^ than 50 yards.
At 7 miles, pass small aoul 20 houses. At
7^ miles a stream joins from right, and above
junction is a curious conical hill with scarped
sides called Panj Mar, (or Panj Mund) which
offers another impregnable site from which to
command the pass— {MacGregor},
Here there is a small valley one mile long, and
at the end of it road splits in two, the one to left
going by an exceedingly difficult defile (Tang-i-
Shikasta) impracticable for guns, the other going
over the hill to right by Shiga defile, and joining
the left road about 2 miles further on— {Mac-
Greg or).
Position at this point is unassailable, road leading
straight up to a cliff, going between precipices,
and apparently coming to a cul-de-sac, as no sign
of a road is seen. The hill rises 400' above defile,
and searches every foot of it for a mile. It
would be possible to ascend the hills on the south
bank of the defile, and going along the crest, get
in behind the position half a mile to the rear,
and descend from this to the Tang-i-Shikasta,
whence a steep path leads up to the rear of the
hill; but this path is so close that it would
be impossible to get up by it unperceived, and no
troops could force their way up. It might be
possible to turn this position on its right, but the
hills are so open that there would be little chance
of doing so without being exposed and the paths
up to it are all of an extremely impracticable
nature—(i^cGmjror). At9i miles, rock inscrip
tion of 926 Hijra, right bank of stream. At
miles small tributary from glen to left, at head
of which lies large village Bulghur, 1 mile distant,
bend north following stream, and at a f mile pass
road to village Sij, falling in right rear. Defile
shut in by cliffs of sandstone. At 24 miles
emerge on open valley draining from east and
west. Two roads to Kalat branch off east and
west. The latter said to be the worst. At 26

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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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