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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [158r] (320/739)
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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261
No. 139.
M ashad K alat-i -N adiri.
Aulhorily awl Yate, August 3 894.
No.
D istancbs
ix milks.
E eaubks.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
1
Shahi
6
{
Cross tbe Kashaf Rud by the bridge known as the
Pul-i-Shahi. The river is dammed up at tha
bridge to form a canal head, but below that it is
very narrow wiith very little water in it.
Shahi is a small village of about thirty houses and
belongs to a shrine official. Supplies procurable.
2
Razan
11
' f
3
r
17
The road runs over a fairly level country with
good villages at some little distance on both
sides, the latter part of the way following the
banks of a water-course to the village of Mihr,
and thence to Kazan which lies on both banks of
a nullah. The road to the camping-ground turns
off across the nullah through the village, and the
best place to go to is Andarukh, two miles further
on along the high level road to the east of tbe
village, which then need not be left,
Kazan contains about one hundred houses. One-
third of it belongs to the shrine at Mashad and
the remaining two-thirds is the jagir of Khusro
Mirza, who lives in Mashad and recovers two
hundred tumans in cash and forty kharwars of
grain from the village yearly. Supplies plenti
ful.
3
Aol i •.
13
30
Two miles up the valley to the village of Andarukh
and then enter the defile, or Zu-i-Andarukh, the
narrow part of which, about a mile in length,
with precipitous rocks, some three hundred feet
in height on either side, and a good stream down
the centre. At the 7th mile pass the village of
Kardeh situated in a little valley of its own to
the left of the road. After another rise and
descent, the road struck the stream again and
followed it up to Aol, which is a small pipturesque
village in a narrow part of the pass inhabited
by some twenty-five families of Chulais. Sup
plies procurable.
4
balanun
11
41
Road continues up valley for some 2J miles, then
passes small village of Fanjmana ; about a mile
beyond road branches, the telegraph line fol
lows main nullah to left, but road said to be
very bad, better road round by right to village
of Sij, some 2 miles beyond. Half-way, rocks
on either side come down so close that, at one
place, a laden camel can hardly get through, and
a steep ascent just beyond causes mules to slip
their loads. Leaving Sij to right rejoin main
road some 2 miles beyond, and follow it about
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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).
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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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