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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [189v] (383/739)
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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824
No. 168— concld.
N ishabur to S iiahrud, vid the Jnwain Valley.
No.
of
stage.
D istancbs
in miles.
bbmabkb.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
4
zoheabad ...
27
96
At 7 miles pass village of Kalata Arat. Country
hereabouts very thickly inhabited, chiefly Turks
and Kurds. At 25 miles very fine massive fort,
called Ak Kala, now in ruined condition, Zohra-
bad is a flourishing place.
5
Khosboshie ...
22
118
At 12 miles Khosroshir, a small village. Ea-
chaman is a flourishing place.
6
Shakifabad ...
22
140
Over plain, passing many ^ villages. Sharifabad
is a poor place, and water is scarce.
7
Robat-i-Pul Ab-
e1shmi.
21
161
Beyond Sharifabad there is no cultivation, but
the land is fit for grazing at 21 miles. Close to
salt Abrisham river is an ancient brick cara-
vansarai. Water fit to drink obtainable from a
spring 2 miles distant. Bridge across river in
ruins.
8
Lalat
25
186
Cross the Abrisham river, and over plain. At
14 miles Robat-i-Nogambad (no water).
Kalat consists of a group of hamlets.
9
iAlAGAS
26
212
Over bare uninhabited plain to large village of
Gilan (18 miles); then on to Magas. Cf. Rome
No. 154, stage 2.
10
Shahbud
go
240
Pour miles from Magis road enters hills, and is
very bad, up and down through broken ground
for about 15 miles, when the plain of Bostam is
entered. Pass many villages, and at 23 miles
enter Bostam.
This route is very important, as it would probably
be used by an army marching from Shahrud to
Khorasan. it lies on an average about 25 miles
north of the post road.
'Note. —Thomson gives the following information, from Madan,—
Road north-east at first up and down small hills. Village
baida on right at 5 miles; road now level and Binalud range in
front; at 7 miles emerge on a chaman and skirt it on the left
for 41 miles. Village Murad at B miles on left, Shahi lOi
miles on left; at 11^ miles Fazalabad, road here bears round
village ; at 12 miles Chaman ends and road gradually ascends
to hills. Commence to enter low hills at 13 miles and continue
over small ridges till Sultan Maidau plateau is reached at 17
miles. Elevation perhaps 6,000 feet; at 18 miles branch road
to Khdar village, said to be large and to have supplies ; at 26
miles cross low ridge and in 6 minutes reach Hasanabad,
a smail village. Here Nishabur territory ends: Khalaluis
3 miles further on. For trbeps proceeding from Nishabur to
Kuchan or Askabad, this route would be much the shorter •
road may be described as excellent throughout; quite practi
cable for artillery. Distance to Khalifcu (in Kuchan territory)
9 U? 61106 t0 Saidabad (on the Mashad—Kuchan cart'
road) 24 miles ; road good throughout. Gulshanabad on lefc
at 5 miles ; hence to Saidabad no water nor inhabited spot,
gentle descent till 8 miles when ridge is ascended and the
Mashad valley becomes visible. Saidabad is 62 miles from
Mashad.
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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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