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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [202r] (408/739)
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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349
No. 177— contd.
S aktz to K abmanshah, via Shiahhy Rengrazal, 8fc.
No.
of
stage.
Distances
in miles.
Names of stages.
[ntermo
diate
Total.
Eemaeks.
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Cross the small stream which flows east from here.
It contains abcmdance of water for this time of
.year. Elev. 7,200'.
These streams form the head waters of the Kizil
Uzan flowing into the Caspian.
Cross some low midultations ; the track is almost
level now.
Descend into small valley with easy shelving sides.
Country is quite treeless and bare.
Over a spur and descend a narrow valley.
Alongside a small stream. Soil a disintegrated
shaly rock. Elev. 6,665'.
Turn up a long wide valley. Gradient easy.
5
Kosuma.
7,155'.
16
9i
■ cqirf»
00 ^
Reach small grassy plateau at the head of the
valley. Camp here. Temp. 93°.
Water is from a spring in the hillside.
Left camp, and road continues over undulating
plain descending towards small valley. Temp.
56°. Elev. 7,155'»
Cross small stream flowing east, and follow left
bank of ravine.
Steep descent down V-shaped, stony ravine.
Elev. 6,480'.
Ravine opens into a wider valley down which a
large stream flows. The banks are flat and
grassy, and the valley is 100 to 200 yards wide.
On the slope bordering the valley is a village of
40 huts called Poshtomur surrounded by a few
poplars. Several large springs in the hillside
close by. Road turns east and follows the stream
bank. Some good green grass near the water's
edge.
Turn up a side valley 100 to 150 yards wide.
Road a broad gravelly track following a streamlet.
The main valley just left runs down in a direc
tion 12° and joins the upper waters of the Kizil
Uzan. Pass a watermill.
Soil clay and gravel, valley is bordered by low
rounded undulations and winds a good deal.
Open into a wide upland. Elev. 6,655'.
Pass a few patches of cultivation, and two water-
mills, now disused, because the streams are dry.
All available water is taken for the crops.
! Pass village of 100 houses called Firaba, i mile to
the right under some low hills, surrounded by a
few poplars. Water-supply from a large spring.
Elev. 7,090'.
Ascend valley 400 to 600 yards wide. Rounded
hills on either hand capped with rock in some
places. Elev. 7,200'.
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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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