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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎177r] (358/739)

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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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299
No. 154.
M iandasht to A strabad, via Mag as and ZaremguL
Authority — V aughan , (A ugust ) 1888.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Remaeks,
Hounistoun
Maqas
16
24
40
Good road over hard gravel plain. At f mile
through some ruins ; hills on left low and close at
hand ; those on right about 1 mile off. At 7 miles
brackish stream. At 8J miles ascend rocky pas
sage for 20 yards ; a few rocks require removing
to make this latter passable for guns. Finally
over immense and open sloping plain to Hounis
toun village (80 houses). Water plentiful ; fuel
abundant; 6,000 to 8,000 sheep.
Villages within radius of 3 miles are—Sharifabad,
50 houses; Kohan, 100 houses; Eiabad, 100
houses; Bikerun, 100 houses; Kardabad, 100
houses.
A road leads through them from Birjand to
Astrabad.
Good road, through cultivation for J mile till it
reaches icanat stream (fresh). At 2 miles pass
hamlets of Husenabad (50 houses) and Kala
Mugra (50 houses) half a mile off on the left.
Pass wheat cultivation on that side, and cross
dry bed of salt-water stream ; hard clay ; and
sandy Icavir till 4th mile. Cross narrow, dry
water-course 7 feet deep, whose banks require
easing for guns. At 8 miles track leaves sandy
soil, and commences to run over hard tract of
beaten clay, on which water lies occasionally.
(Traffic is carried on notwithstanding.) At 9J
miles pass through ruins of old town. Thence
over open gravelly plain. Road next over fine sand
and clay till31j miles, when it runs over hard
gravel soil. At 13J miles pass a Icanat stream
(fresh) ; small fort and twenty acres of cultivation
away on left. On over broken ground. Atl3f
miles road skirts bank of dry river-bed on left,
which flows south. At 16 miles pass first village
of Gil an, 600 yards off on right. Then cross
river-bed (banks easy, bottom hard gravel).
Pass a mud fort close on right, and pass through
second village of Gilan.
Houses 200. Sheep 4,000. Crops limited. Lots
of gardens and trees about. Water plentiful.
On through village between walled gardens (guns
would have to go round outside) ; out of it and
over clayey soil. At 18J miles over gravel soil.
The mountain range to the north is perfectly
barren, and several farsakhs off.
pass a ruined abamhar on right.
At 18f 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)
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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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