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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎208v] (421/739)

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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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No. \n~~concld,
Sakiz to Karmanshah, via ShlaMy Revgrazal, fyc.
No.
of
•tage.
Names of stages.
PlSCAKCEa
IK MILES.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Bemibks.
Kamiban
Kala
Khitni.
Shah
Kadamgah
Elias.
Takobostam
10
161
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16i
1644
181J
10
Kaemanshah .m
191
195
and a palace, is a tributary of the Karun. Some
handsome gardens and summer-houses in ravines
to south of city and large graveyards to west,
Lat. 34° 19' 0 7 north ; long. 47° 13' 0" east.
Webb makes five stages from Kolasara. (Stage 7)
as follows: —
For 2 miles tbe rivulets crossed in last march run
on right, with mountains on both sides. For
| mile farther the road winds through a defile of
high mountains, with a small river, called Kaza-
war, running on left. At the end of this distance,
cross a small branch of the Kazawar. Here coun
try begins to open. Cross this branch again at
2 miles farther, and once more near the village
of Kamiran. About i mile south by south-east
of this village is a small one called Zaranjun.
Road through the bed of a dry river for 2 miles; a
range of high mountains on the right, about 2
miles off with a fine plain on the left, and a range
in front about 21 miles distant. The river Kaza
war runs oast to west before the village, and
empties itself into the Karasu. The boundary
of Kurdistan and Karmanshah lies between this
village and Kamiran.
At 5 miles cross Kazawar river; mountains on both
sides. From this, road over a plain ; a range of
mountains on left, about If or 2 miles istant
with scattered hills on the right. At 5 miles far
ther cross the Kazawar, which keeps to left until
If miles farther, where cross it again ; a range
of high mountains on right, about 4 or 5 miles
distant, and another on left about 2 miles. En
camped at the foot of a mountain near an exca
vation in the rock, called Kadamgah Elias, asmall
tank of fine water. This march was through a
fertile country scattered on both sides with
villages.
For J mile the road lay along the foot of a range
of mountains on right, and a plain on left;
mountains about 2 miles distant, afterwards into
a plain with two villages on the left—one called
Kordulharn, and the other Kinara. Farther on
village on right, about a quarter of a mile distant,
called Paurawan. From this place Karmanshah
bore between south and south by east, about 4 or
5 miles ; 3J miles more another village on the
right called Surkh Kilija. For the last 7 miles, a
range of mountains on left the plain of Karman
shah on right.
At 1J miles cross Karasu river about 50 yards wide,
stream running from west to east.

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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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