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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [170v] (345/739)
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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286
No. 149— contd.
M ashad to T ehran, via Nishahur, Sabzawar, Sfc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
11
Miandjlsht
12
M iiomai
D istances
iw miles.
Interme'
diate.
22
24
Total.
231
255
remaeis.
the bridge, route crossed, the country is very
broken and ravine-cut, and overrun by hills ; to
the S. it spreads out in a vast desert, white with
salts. Beyond this the road leads over some low
slaty ridges and then crosses a wide stony hollow
to Abbasabad.
In 1 hour and 10 minutes came to a collection of
three or four springs in a hollow to the right, and
in 45 minutes more arrived at Abbasabad. Good
Icarez streams; but very little corn cultivation.
Eoute westerly. From Abbasabad skirted the
desert for a short distance, and then entered on
a very rough hillskirt of low slaty ridges. In 1
hour and 20 minutes we entered the Dahna
A1 Hak between rugged hills. The defile winds
by an easy ascent between close-set hills of no
great height.
Cleared the pass in 25 minutes, and in 5 minutes
more came to the A1 Hak sarai, which is fast
going to ruin. There is a small village here of
50 houses, but it only contains a few families ;
around it are a few mulberry trees, and there is a
g@od little Tcarez close by. Beyond this the road
goes over an open but very broken country. In 'So
minutes came to a small gap in alow ridge, and
then continued route over similar country to that
previously traversed, and at length reached an
open gravelly plain, in the centre of which stands
the Miandasht sarai.
There is no village here, but the sarai is fortified
and contains 30 resident families. A new sarai
is in course of construction. Water from a
Icarez stream. The residents here all derive their
supplies from Maiomai. See Index.
Route westerly over very broken country, sloping
to the N. in which direction it drains to the
Jajarm valley. In 2 hours and 40 minutes came
to a deep gully, called Dahna Zaidar.
In 1 hour and 40 minutes from the gully reached
the Zaidar fort, on the edge of a wide ravine.
This fort is garrisoned by 50 sarhaz.
Beyond the fort are some trees and a Tcarez, but
no cultivation. The road hugs the hills bound
ing the valley or plain to the south. The great
plain called Kavir is covered with pasture and
dotted with Turkoman towers.
In 1 hour and 35 minutes from the fort arrived at
Maiomai. Road very rough and stony.
Hence post-road, very stony at first, keeps to left,
and passing Judana village at about 6 miles,
ascends steep valley to Armian at 16 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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