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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [191r] (386/739)
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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327
No. 170— contd.
Pesh Robat to Sarakhs, via Zorabad > Ful-i-Khahin and Naorozalad.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in" miles.
Interme
diate.
E emabks.
Total.
conduct through difficult defiles. The second and
shortest route over the mountains,which I followed,
cannot properly be called a road ; in parts it is not
so much even as a bridle path. The third and long
est, at the same time the best route, is that which
passes through Turbat-i-Shekh-Jam and Lenkar
to Zurabad. The mountainous portion of this
road is got over in only one day's journey.
The second of these routes from Pesh-Robat follows
the bank of the Hari-Eud to Kalsan-Kala, after
which it turns to the west, and crosses the Jam, 3
versts (2 miles), from the confluence of that river
with the Hari-Rud. Beyond this point the country
is hilly ; the road passes the ruins of Kala-i-Melu
near a fresh water spring, and 8 versts (5i miles)
farther enters the mountains, through which it
runs as a narrow path over the bare rocks through
defiles and deep valleys and over high passes. In
many parts there is not even a track of any kind.
For pack animals this section of the route is very
difficult; the clearing of a carriage road would be
a great undertaking, There is plenty of water,
as there is a stream in every defile, and there is
excellent forage. The mountain slopes are covered
with trees, and near the Galabat spring there is
a pretty thick forest.
We emerged from the mountains at a point within
12 versts (8 miles) of a Sal or settlement, and passed
a line of neglected Jcarez, and then along a copious
stream diverted into the fields at Zurabad.
Zurabad is now acquiring a very great importance.
With the sanction of the Persian Government,
as many as 2,000 tents of Salors have been pitched
there.
There are two roads from Zurabad fo Pul-i-Khatun :
the first and shortest passes through the moun
tains ; the second crosses to the eastern bank of the
river and returns to the Persian shore through
the Garman-Darband,where it joins the first road.
The mountain road as far as Deana-Darband is
difficult; it is very much like the route from
Kale-i-Melu to Zurabad. Near Deana-Darband,
the road runs down to the Hari-Rud, and passes
along the bank of that river to Sarakhs. Here,
on the eastern side of the river, the mountains
stretch as far almost as Pul-i-Khatun. On the
Persian side, however, they stand away from
the river, and the road runs only here and there
over low spurs, while from Pul-i-Khatun to
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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).
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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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