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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [171v] (347/739)
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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288
No. 149— contd,
M ashad to T ehran^ Nhlidbur, Sabzawar ) fyc.
No.
of
stages.
Names of stages.
D istances
IW MILES.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Ebmibks.
16 Ghuskah
23
17
361
Ahuak Sarai ...
24
385
hillskirt, to the left it slopes down to the salt desert
or Jcavir, In 1 hour and 40 minutes, passing a
small hamlet off to the left of the road, came to
Kadirabad on the right. From this onwards
passed a succession of villages and gardens on
each side of route, but very limited "orn culti
vation. Passed the following villages to the
west of route, viz., Naimnabad, Hajiabad Im-
amabad, Mihmandost, Ibrahimabad, Huseinabad
Eustigan, Bavan, etc. ; and to the right the fol
lowing, viz., Bakh, Tagh, Gaz, and 2 or 3 others.
In 2 hours and 5 minutes from Kadirabad came*
to the remains of a tower and walls, etc., near
Bakh, and in IJ hours therefrom reached Dam-
ghan. See Index.
A telegraph station here.
Route S.W. by W. A good road parallel to the
hills on right, distant about 2 miles j to the left
lies a great arm of the desert, S. of which is a
range ot hills. Soil a firm gravel.
In 2 hours and 15 minutes came to Ababad on
on Passed Sharashvan
(.) and Bakhshabad, and in 25 minutes more came
to Daolatabad. a village with triple walls of forti-
fication. Further on, passing Ismailabad on the
light and Sayadabad on the left, we in 1 hour
came to Amirabad, also on the left. Up to this
pomt about 30 villages are seen on the plain ; all
are fortified and surrounded by gardens and corn
and cottonfields Beyond this point the road
curves to the S W and leads across a desert stony
plain between hills. J
1 j 1 ™ 1 ' f n i 40 minutes from Amirabad came
thebhushah sarai and post-house. No villao-e
nor cultivation here, but a deserted little fort
stands on the plain clos# by. Water good, but
limited in quantity from an open pool and cis-
tern.
R r^ e S ' S ' W ' by , l S ' ^ a ^ ood ' bard, gravelly
road, over a gently-rismg desert waste with hills
on either side. In 3 hours came to a small
sandy and gravelly ravine, and beyond it, rising
Swiiaer,! 10
Beyond this the road turns S.W. by W. and nass
mg over several undulations, follows the bed of a
sandy ravine, and leaving this to the left, rises
th 6 01 - u f f; id S e above the sea).
Hence there is short descent to a circular hollow.
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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).
- Physical characteristics
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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