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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [165v] (335/739)
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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276
No. 148— conid.
Masihvu to Sbhkoha, via Turbat-i~Ilaidari, fyc.
No.
D istances
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
]
interme
diate.
Total.
R emakks.
11
Imeani
21
142
This place is on the high road to Rirjand. A waste
plain of soft earth is traversed for the first-half o£
the way, and after that sandy dunes. A flourish
ing place, where supplies are easily procurable.
There is a deep and good water tank in the vil
lage with water-taps to the cistern to prevent
pollution and waste.
12
jumain ».
14
166
The road took us a little east of south to the vil
lage of Ghujd and thence south-west to Jumain.
Camp on the south of the town.
The village of Jumain is commonly known as
Gunahad, being the capital of the district of
that name.
13
Kakhs
5,300\
13
169
The road runs across a bare stony plain the whole
way. The village lies at the foot of the Siah-kuh
hills and is a good-sized place, where supplies are
cheap and plentiful. There are the ruins of aij
old fort on a hillock above the village.
U
Kidei
15
v-»
00
The road leaves the nullah bed to the right shortly
above the village, crosses over a couple of small
kotals with a steep ascent and descent for 100
yards on either side, and about the 5th mile pass
es a couple of pistachio trees which apparently
gave the name to the pass, viz., Godar-i-darakht-
i-Bana. Less than a mile beyond the third and
final kotal is passed, and the road descends to the
little hamlet of Saghori, whence a level plain is
seen in front; the village of Dasht-i-Piaz stands
on the edge of this plain, and Kidri lies some
2 miles to the south of it. Supplies cheap and
plentiful and water good from a karcz at a little
distance.
16
j
Naoghab
16
200
Supplies scarce. Grain here is said to be brought
from Sistan, and is nearly half as dear again as
at Mashad.
16
IVAIN
4,800'.
I
rH
314
1
The road leads along a pass by a stream through
the lower spurs of the hills and merges on to the
Kain plain some 2 miles from the town. The
t own itself consists of some houses inside the old
fort walls, but the bazaar and the greater
part of the town are outside the walls. The
town now possesses, it is said, 13 IcanaU of
water. The masjid is the only building of any
size in the town, which is built of burnt brick.
The town now bears rather a prosperous look.
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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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