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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [203r] (410/739)
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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351
No. 177— contd*
S akiz to K armanshah, via Shlaich, Rengrazal, fyc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages
D istances.
ik milks.
Interme
diate.
Total.
E emabks.
S eni
6,090'.
25i
32
21
115
119
Va leynow J wide, well cultivated. Skirt
along right side and pass the village of Sotian of
irLs J 63 ' 1 y f d - i t0 the Ieft ' sun ' oun ded by
Torap 9 9° POP Ele r v. ^ ^ Vineyards -
Valley widens out and the road undulates over
some gravelly spurs from low hills to the rieht
Turn over a spur to the right and descend into
small ravine well lined with orchards. Elev.
u (J •
C r.T a ;i, n ? W i nearIy dr y' an ,3 as cend
shaiply the light bank towards a low ridee
Descend into another narrow valley bare of trees
with a little stream flowing north-east. Easv
descent and ascent. Elev. 5,690'
Ovei- ridge and descend a long' slope towards Sena,
following a valley 1 to 2 miles wide bordered bv
low rounded hills. Passed several " karezes " used
for irrigation of the vineyards. Skirt along the
right side of large vineyards and fruit orchards.
Descend sharply into a ravine, crossed hy a eood
brick bridge and enter the narrow streets of the
town.
The weather was hot and the glare severe. Noon
temperature in an orchard was 55° morning tern-
perature 64°. 5
L ® rt , f ena ; gferal direction south along a track
20 broad between hedgerows, through gardens
and vineyards on the west side of the town, and
joined, atter a short distance, another wide road.
Emerge from gardens. Continue skirting the west
side, about f mile distant, and then strike across
open, undulating country, sloping gently towards
the river. Range of rounded hills lies 2 to Smiles
to the west.
The valley of the Ab-i-Sirwan is 3 to 4 miles broad.
Koad is a broad, gravelly track, undulating over
some low spurs gradually descending.
Reach the left bank of the river. ^ About 1 mile
distant is the Kuh-i-Lailagh, rocky and bare
along the summit, with several rounded spurs
near the base abutting on the stream.
Pass Karadia, a village of 100 houses in a small
valley, about a mile broad, running up into the
ridge to the right. It is J mile from the road,
and surrounded by a large orchard and grove of
poplars with irrigated patches of corn, melons,
vegetables, etc.
Ford the Ab-i-Sirwan, the upper waters of the Diala
river. It is called here the Rakma. It is now
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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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