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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [178v] (361/739)
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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802
No. 154— conoid.
Miandasht to Astrabad, vii Magas, fyc.
ISTo.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
E emabes.
Interme
diate.
" Total.
6
Asteabad
14
124 J
wide, with easy banks. Along the river banks-
until 19 miles is reached ; then leave river and
go up through wooded park-like country over
low spur. Down by steep descent over grassy
slope surrounded on all sides by forest. Proceed
through forest by good road running over allu
vial soil. Leave forest at 24J miles and emerge
on to open ground ; soil gravel; only a few bush
es and grass about. Cross some fresh stream
lets, and at 26f miles enter village of Naodeh
(about 150 houses). Road indifferent, impass
able to guns.
Supplies said to be 1,000 cows, 3,000 sheep.
Crops 500 karwars of rice. Water and firewood
plentiful.
Road a winding track over alluvial soil, amongst
rice cultivation interspersed with trees and bush
es ; clayey and muddy in places where shallow
streams cross it.
At 1| miles pass village of Shamsabad. on right
(about 100 houses).
Supplies said, to be cows 200, sheep 2,000, crops 200
karwars of rice. Then cross fresh stream coming
down from hills on left through a belt of trees.
Bed clay, banks easy and 9 feet high. At 4 miles
a road branches off on right to Sahan Kulla,
then on over ground, which is slippery and mud
dy from irrigation streams. At 5f miles cross a
fresh-water stream. At 6 miles Astrabad be
comes visible, as also village of Bala Geleen con
sisting of 100 houses. Supplies said to be cows
300, sheep 3,000, crops 400 karwars of rice. On
over gravel soil amongst bushes, then across some
open ground. At 7 miles pass village of Shallu
on the right (150 houses). Supplies said to be
cows 300, sheep 4,000, crops 500 karwars of rice.
Then on by broad and good road over clayey soil.
At 10 miles cross a water-course, 20 feet wide >
with stony bed and 6-foot banks. Pass through
trees, and at lOf miles cross a shallow stream with
steep and gravelly banks.
On over open ground. Then enter low copse and
cross stream.
At 13f miles pass under telegraph wire and cross
shallow stream. At 14 miles enter Astrabad.
See Index Connection with Section III, Central
Asia Routes.
Road indifferent, and, owing to the narrowness of
the track and numerous irrigation channels, un
fit for guns.
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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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