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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [158v] (321/739)
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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262
No. 139— contd.
Mashad to Kalat-i-Nadiri.
No.
of
■tag*.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
E imases.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
5
B aedeh
13
54
3 miles on to Bohat-i-BalgTiur,. the name of an
old river.
Here turn off to the left for half a mile up a 1
lateral nullah to the village of Balghur.
The villages in the hills between Andarukh and
Balghur are known by the general name of
Chulaikhana, being the settlements of the
Chulais, a Turk tribe, but speaking both Tuiki
and Persian.
The head of the tribe is Abul Fatteh Khan, who
lives at Marish, a village about a farsakh south of
Balghur, and is the hereditary Governor of the-
district, independent of Kalat.
There are about seventy families in Balghur, but
they say the weather is so cold that grapes will
not grow here and they have little fruit.
The altitude by the barometer is about 6,000 feet,
a rise of 1,200 during this march.
Returing about a mile to Rubat-i-Balghur the road^
runs for about 1| miles up the main valley, then
a narrow gorge in the rocks. The road then?
winds on up the nullah for another 3| miles r
when another bad gorge is reached; at the top
of that the road divides that to the left or west
going, it is said, direct to Charam, and that to
the right or east, to Bardeh. A mile beyond this^
the watershed is reached at a low kotal called
Kamar-i-Pirzan, with a rise from Balghur of
some 1,500 feet.
Beyond this instead of the narrow rocky defiles ;
previously gone through, an undulating open
country on the top of the hills, known as the
Karadagh range, and the roads run along this
up and down, crossing ridge after ridge. A mile
from the Kamar-i-Pirzan, a small hamlet of
nomads where a road branches off to the left to
the village of Abkamak. Some Sf miles beyond
that the second kotal, called the Deve Boyun,
or, in Persian, Shutar Gardan, is reached, after
several steep ascents and descents, with an eleva
tion of some 230 feet less than that of the Pir-
zan, but with a much steeper approach. The
ascent from the south is very rocky and difficult
for laden mules, and impassable for camels. The
descent on the north is very steep for the first
800 feet, and then it winds down to the village
of Bardeh, some 770 feet further down in the
valley below.
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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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