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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [205r] (414/739)
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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S55
No. m—c
Sakiz to Kaemanshah, via Shlakh,
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
E ehabks.
Interme
diate.
Total.
•^r 01
140
141J
right bank. Enter a basin between the hills, J
mile wide, where the valley widens.
After passing the village, wind round a 3' to 4'
ledge closely overhanging the stream, following
a bend. By fording the stream, a level track
would be obtainable all up the valley. The
stream is not however fordable at all points.
Ford stream, 20 yards wide and 1' to 18 v deep,
flowing in a wide gravelly channel.
The little loops between the bends of the river are
well cultivated. The principal crops are wheat,
maize, cotton castor-oil plant and melons, in very
small patches.
There is a track on either bank. This bank is the
easiest.
A village of 30 huts on the right bank close to
the water. There is a watermill close to the
village.
The bend of the river comes close to the road on
this side. Follow a narrow rocky ledge, 3' to 4'
wide, overhanging the water. Low shrubs begin
to appear on the hillsides.
Cross several small spurs from the ridge to the
right. A small village of 40 huts called Huasua,
half-way up the hill on the right bank. Elev.
4,7 70 f .
A high rocky range rises steeply over this to the
east.
Dip into ravine with small stream coming from
the west, up which runs a mule track to Juanro
and Zohab.
Village of Yiminan is situated miles west up
this ravine. The high range to the west is the
Kuh-i-Yiminan.
Along a ledge, 3'to 4' wide, cut in hill sidooverthe
stream, stony in places. The rock is a soft shale.
Valley of river is now | mile wide.
Track improves for a short distance. Encampment
of booths on the right bank.
Road leads down a steep slope following a series
of short zigzags into the river-bed. Elev. 4,815'.
Ascend immediately another stony spur ; rough
track. By crossing and recrossing the stream,
these ascents and descents could be avoided.
Stream is not fordable at all points. There are
several deep reaches. ^ « -t •
Round the foot of a spur jutting out. Soil is a
loose clay and disintegrated limestone rock.
Temp. 83°. Elev. 4,950/ „ ,
Pass a small footbridge, made entirely of fascines,
over a small stream. Stony, but easy, track. A
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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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