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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [201r] (406/739)
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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347
No. \11~~contd.
Sakiz £0 Karmanshah, via Shlakh, Uengrazal, fyc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of staged.
D istances
in milbs.
Interme
diate.
Shahkala ...
6,865'.
21
Total.
Bbm&bks.
41
6f
67
711
73
Halt at a village of 200 houses in the valley on
the edge of a small stream flowing to join that
left on the other side of the spur.^ Wheat,
tobacco, millet, sesame, and gram cultivated in
small patches in the valley, A few poplars, and
small gardens of melons, encumbers, and vege
tables on stream bank. The road winds through
the village, and one has to be careful not to
descend, horse and all, through the flat roofs
of the houses. There is a watermill on the
stream bank. Temp. 88 0 .
Over rocky spur, along a rough track for some
200 yards, and then a broad road, following a
small stream valley, 150 to 200 yards wide for a
mile. Pass watermill and several patches of
maize. Temp. 69°. Elev. 6,865'.
Paths lead in every direction over these rounded
hills. Cross little stream, and ascend broad
valley parallel to high rocky range, half a mile
to the left.
Reach summit of low cot. A peak with a few
patches of snow bears 275° from here. Descend
a broad clay track, having an undulating country
to the right, and high rocky ridge cut up by
narrow ravines to the left. Elev. 7,000'.
Over a succession of narrow clay spurs from the
range to the leffc, Elev. 7,380'.
In valley of large stream, the head waters of the
Kurkhura, running north, joins that from
Shahkala. Small patches of cultivation along the
banks. Easy track over soft shaly soil. Track
winds parallel to the bank, and 50' above the
waters
Entering a narrow rocky gorge between two high
hills. Elev. 6,935'.
Very rough track, ascending steeply among
boulders and large loose stones in the stream bed,
in places, 3' to 4' wide. The ravine is barely 30 •
yards wide, with very steep slopes on either
hand. Summits of border hills are rounded.
Pass a small waterfall. Valley opens out a little
and the track improves. By removing the loose
stones and some of the boulders, a good track
could be made: the gradient is fairly easy. ■
Elev. 7,210'.
A small valley runs up to the left. Hillsides
become less rocky and more shelving. Pass
small village of 30 houses, i mile to the left,
called Kul.
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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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