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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [181r] (366/739)
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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307"
No. \5i)—coneld.
Naiband to Khabis, via Chehel Gwark.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
K habis
28
192
B emabes,
bhor, a small hamlet. There the road branches
off to Karman, distant 30 miles. Track then
crosses a nullah with salt sti-eam and then descends
into another nullah which it follows up going
south. At 16J miles the valley swings round to
south-east touching the main range on the west.
At 17 miles the hamlet of Tejen with few
supplies. Good water-supply.
Road continues up the valley passing a small ham
let,Deh-i-Nao, at 1 mile. At 34 miles reach a
pass, 7,200', which is the watershed for Khabis.
Gradually descending, at 5 miles Deh Rud, a
village of 25 houses, supplies and a ruined
fort. ^ Passing on the valley narrows until at
Deh-i-Shee, a hamlet; at 6^ miles it is only a
quarter of a mile wide and follows left bank
of stream which is flowing freely at this
point. At 7| miles Bagh Bala: both these
hamlets occupy a narrow strip along left bank of
stream.
At 8J miles the valley narrows to a breadth of 100
yards and thenqe forward the track is mainly in
the river-bed. At 11 miles the valley again
narrows to a still' greater degree at a miir
below which is the famous Khar Shikan pass.
Its worst feature consists in a huge rock which
so bars up the valley that no animal witli •
its load on could pass. Added to this there
is - a copsideiable drop, but still, compared-
with the passes on the Shiraz-Bushire road,
beyond its extreme narrowness, there is no
great difficulty, that a charge of dynamite
could not remove. At llf miles gorge widens
out and the Sarai-i-Khar Shikan, a few stone
huts with a guard, is reached. Only milk and
bread are obtainable. Just below the stream
disappears, not reappearing until 14 miles, where
there is a bamboo thicket.
At J.6 miles the valley again commences to widen
out, and there are patches of bamboos which
form excellent food for cattle.
At 17 miles a hamjet Bisha and just below Boz-
i-Kuh. From there (4 ,000') descent to the
plain is very steep; at; 23 miles a dry ^iver-bed
is reached and the plain on which iChabi.s lies
which is at 28 miles. Connects with Section 1.
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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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