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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎172r] (348/739)

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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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289
No. 149— contd.
M ashad to T ehran, via Nishabur, Sahzawar, fyc.
No.
D istances
in miles,
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
B emabes,

whicli drains by a wide gully to the N.; in this
is situated Ahuan sarai.
There is a good supply of water-here from an open
pool and abambar^ close to the sarai and post-
house. Throughout the march neither village
nor water met with.
18
S AMNAN ...
24
409
Route S.S.W. by a gradual rise up to a low ridge,
crested in 30 minutes ; then crossing some undul
ations, in 5 minutes more came to a second ridge
(6,700' above the sea).
From this point the road descends quickly along
the course of a dry, pebbly ravine, occasionally
rising over low undulations abutting upon it
from the heights on either side. In 1| hours
came to the ruins of a little fort on the left of
the ravine. Beyond this the road turns off to the
right, W.S.W., and, crossing some ups and
downs, comes to the Chashma Karam spring.
We reached this in 10 minutes, and then ascend
ing by a steep, narrow and stony path entered
on an undulating tract of low ridges and hollows,
and in 12 minutes more reached the crest of a
watershed (5,600' above the sea). Descent by a
difficult and narrow path down the bed of a
winding gully or water-cut, mostly dry, but
here and there were moist spots from oozing
springs ; the gully leads to a wide, stony hiliskirt
which slopes down to the plain.
The wide tract of low hills now passed form a
barrier between the valleys or plains of Damghan
and Samnan.
Following the long slope of the hillskirt along ihe
line of telegraph, gradually entered on the plain,
and in 2 hours from the ridge came to an aham-
har. Here the road turns a point to the W.,
and leads across a wide, stony, parched and sterile
plain (girt on all sides by distant hills) up to
Samnan.
Samnan is a telegraph station ; the town has a
flourishing look and is plentifully supplied with
water from several good karez streams.
19
Labgied
22
431
Route westerly. After passing through gardens
and cornfields for 40 minutes, entered on a wide,
stony, undulating desert tract, a good deal cut up
by water-courses. In 1 hour and 40 minutes
came to a dry abambar, and in 1 hour and 25
minutes more to the village of Surkhab, after
passing which, and crossing a low-lying clayey
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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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