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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [207r] (418/739)
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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S59
No. 177— contd.
Sakiz to Karmanshah, via ShlaJch, Rengrazal, fyc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istancbs
in miles.
BEttiLBsa.
Interme
diate.
Total.
9
Khaglistxn ...
4,720'.
17|
23|
3J
174^
175i
178|
184|
188
To right is a plain, 2 to 3 miles wide, a continua-
tion of the Karmanshah plains. Only a small
portion of this fertile soil is under cultivation.
Liquoriee plant (suss) grows wild in lar^e quan
tities. The shrubs of the gum tragacanth are
burnt on the hill-sides to extract the gum.
Pass village of 30 huts under rocky ridge to left.
Through a half ruined village, Bariljan, consist
ing of 30 miserable huts.
Most of the villages are the same.
Pass a pond with a large spring and stream flow
ing from the foot of the rooks to the left.
Three hundred yards further is a low mound with
the ruins of a mud fort called Kala Yawan, and
a village of 30 huts on the south slope. There
are several small villages, as a rule, of not more
than 30 wretched huts, dotted about the plain.
The inhabitants have now turned out into booths
made of branches for the summer.
The soil is fertile, with abundance of water-supply ;
but is only partially cultivated. No trees are
visible. Wheat and Indian-corn are the principal
crops. Chopped straw obtainable in abundance.
The track across the plain is swampy in places, and
some deep narrow irrigation channels have to be
crossed, which would be difficult for passing guns
over. By keeping along the south-west side of
the plain, these might best be avoided. Pass
village of 20 mud huts in the plain called Me*
wan.
Pass steep rocky cliff, } mile to right, jutting from
ridge on the west side of plain. The Rahzabar
passes close under this cliff. Then strike across
open level country, following a good track, cut
up by a few irrigation channels.
Arrive at village of 100 mud huts called Khag-
listan. Temp. 101°. Ford to right bank of
Rahzabar which we have been skirting. It
runs in a gravelly bed, 50 to 80 yards wide,
between banks 10' to 15' high, and is shallow
with hardly any current. Melons and cucum
bers grown extensively along the water's edge.
One mile to the west is another village of 150
huts called Ahmanabad.
Started along a well defined broad track, by the
right bank of the stream, a well frequented 15'
to 20' road. Temp. 54°.
Pass under the south-east end of a rocky isolated
ridge, 1J miles long, which here rises out of the
plain.
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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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