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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [167r] (338/739)
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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No. 148— contd.
Mashad to Sehkoha, via, Turbat-i-Haidari,
No.
Names of stages.
D istawces
in miles.
of
stage.
*
tnterme
diate.
' Total.
K bmabss.
31
Aliabad
2,000'.
17
409
Eoa d over a bare plain the whole way. About
10 miles out we passed a couple of wdla used
as a halhug-place, called Ghah-i-EWaz. Ali-
abad consists of a walled village of some 20 houses.
Water slightly brackish, but drinkable. Sup-
plies procurable. 1
32
Shutae Gaedan
14
423
Road stony and uneven in places through low
hills, but generally good. There is no village
or habitation here, only brackish water in a river
bed. lamarisk wood plentiful.
33
*
Bandan
9
432
Road led down the bed of the river for some dis-
tance, and then round seme hills near the village
ot Zainalahad and along the hanks of another
"7^ t . 0 .„ Bandan .. a walled village at the edge
ot the hills containing some 30 houses. Wafrr
in the nver is brackish; drinking water is ob
tainable from a reservoir near the village. Sup-
piles procurable. Good dates can be procured
here at about 4^ lbs. per hran.
34
Bal-i-kamab ...
8
440
Water from pools in the nver bed; the stream
does not flow beyond this. There is a reservoir,
which is said to be dry, a further on,
and there is no other water between this and
x>arang. See Route No. 186, stage 12.
35
Baeanq
20
460
The road led across a dry level plain with depres
sions m it every here and there. Camp pitched
near some pools of brackish water. No habita-
tion or supplies, on the spot. Edge of the water
ot the Jdamun visible some 2 miles off.
36
Naseatabad ...
22
482
For the first 10 miles the road led over soft
ground which is generally inundated, but had
been dry for the last 18 months. Then we en
tered a narrow sunken lane through the naizar
or reed beds, called locally the 44 Kuchah," which
is the route for " Tutins" or reed rafts when
the ground is under water.
When we emerged on the more open ground again
we had to bend to the east to the village of
Nasirabad, as the direct road was inundated bv
canal water. Half-way from Nasirabad are the
ruins of Khara-ba-i-Kala-i-Ghulaman.
^ as i ra had ^ Colonel Yate went north to
Tishakani (17 miles) on the southern shore of the
western Hamun ; west to Puza-i-daraz (6 miles)
and back to Nasirabad (17 miles).
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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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