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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [195v] (395/739)
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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(3)
83(1
No. 172— concld.
Rasht to Amul.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Distances
in milks.
Interme
diate.
A mul
Total.
E emaeks.
extensively cultivated with sugar and rice.
During march, the beach was more stony than
usual* shelving »brUptly into the sea, which
•^ppgared along this part ot the coast to be of
greater depth than before. Cross the following
streams, besides eight smaller, nameless ones.
The Nimak-ab-Rud, the Kacharu, Alam-Rud,
the Sulerdeh (dividing Kujur from Nur), the
Rustam-Rud and the Izat Deh.
First along a dry path parallel to the shore,
through low bushes, but afterwards turning into
the belt of forest proceeded towards the beach j
no track was here visible, and the rain of the
preceding night had so flooded the ground, which
was of a soft boggy nature, that it was almost
impassable. ,
Avoiding this obstacle and taking a devious path
among the trees, reached seashore on the banks
of the AUamrud. This river is the boundary
between the district of Nur and Amul, and more
inland it is called the Alisharud. The stream
was deep, rapid, and dangerous from quicksands.
The passage was accomplished, the water, how
ever, running considerably above horses' girths.
Continued march among low sand-hills, covered
with dwarf oak, prickly shrubs, and medlar trees,
for three or four miles, till the Haraz, on the
opposite bank, of which the village of Mahmudabad
is built. The river was about 30 yards broad, its
bed was deep and the current rapid. The only
method of crossing was in a boat, the horses
swimming over. Turned inland through village
of Mahmudabad, and proceeded a short distance
farther over a swampy country, to village of
Taligi-Sir. This was almost a continuation of
Mahmudabad, houses being found nearly all
along the road. The road (if one can possibly
apply the term where there was really no road) lay
wherever it was found most practicable, thiough
a succession of swampy ricefields, interrupted
occasionally by a mile or two of forest In several
places encountered wide and deep ditches, crossed
by narrow bridges formed of the trunks of a
couple of trees, made so slippery by the rain and
mud that they were unpleasant and dangerous
both to horses and riders. At length arrived on
a wide plain partly cultivated and partly covered
with fern and brambles, in the midst of which
Amul is situated. See Index.
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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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