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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [200r] (404/739)
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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345
No. l77~~conid.
Sakiz to Karmanshah, via Shlakk, Rengrazal, fyc.
No.
of
«tage.
Names of stages
D istances.
in miles,
R bmabks.
[nterrae-
diate.
Total.
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Left village, ascending a small spur from a ridge to
the left, and skirting parallel to the main range
in that direction. Soil gravelly, with occasional
outcrops of granite and trachyte, Temp. 65°
Elev. 6,020.'
Cross valley, and wind along foot of range to the
left, following a 6' to 8' clay ledge in the hillside.
Valley of Khurkhnra crossed yesterday is now
700 yards to right, running in deep narrow bed ;
gradually descend towards it. The course of the
Khurkhura is quite different to that represented
in most maps. Its head waters have been confus
ed with those of the J aghatu. Both rise in the
Kuh-i-Chahel Uhashma.
Pass end of rocky valley, running up 3 miles to
the left. A small stream flows down it, growing
, some good grass along the banks.
Along the river, following a revetted ledge, 4' to 6'
wide, in the side of a steep clilf, for 500 yards.
This might be avoided by going along the gravel
ly bed of the stream. A few patches of wheat,
cotton, and millet passed. Elev, SjSSO'.
Over low clay spur, and pass the head of a culti
vated loop, 400 yards in to left.
Pass end of long narrow valley, which comes down
from a direction 185°. Some high spurs of the
Kuh-i-Chahel Chashma seen in that direction.
Good level track, stony in places, over soft shaly
strata.
Narrow track, ascending valley 50 yards wide;
stony track. Elev. 5,905'.
Ford to left bank of JCurkhura, 30 yards wide,
and only 8 inches deep now, flowing in a stony
bed.
Recross to right bank to avoid two rocky
ledges.
Track is 3' to 4' wide, following the bank.
A valley runs up to the right, culminating in a
high rounded hill streaked with snow, and some
10 miles distant.
Pass village of 50 houses called Takawassan, with
a watermill, situated on a hill to the left,
Elev. 6,000'.
Small stream enters river on the right bank.
Banks become more shelving, and the country
more undulating and open. The road improves
and becomes broader and easier.
Narrow bit, 3' to 4' wide, stony and rough for
500 yards, and then open out again.
Narrow rocky valley joins in from the right.
U
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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).
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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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