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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [210r] (424/739)
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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365
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No. 179—
S aotan to K arat, via, Duzai, Turut, fyc.
No.
of
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Eeuabss.
D uzai
13^
34
C hashma
HusilNI.
15i
on right, 100 yards from those on left; at 11J
miles between hillocks, 30 yards apart; at 12^
miles over open ground. At 13J miles cross stream
and proceed up its left hank to 14 miles. Road
good passable to all arms. Said to he sufficient
water for 300 camels. Spring here, and said to he
another large one to N. within a mile or so.
Road good over undulating plateau. A grazing-
grbund for numerous cattle. Cross a water
course (dry) and another shallow one.
At 3 miles road descends over undulations. Cross
another watercourse (dry). Now over uneven
ground and a dry watercourse. After a shallow
watercourse pass between low hills. At 6J-
miles road for 36' too narrow for guns; soil soft ;
then descend into dry stream-bed, bapks of which
require easing. Pass through ravine (9' wide
between 14' banks) at 7 miles. Koad is now too
narrow for guns for 220 yards. Pick and shovel
sufficient* fresh water oozes from gravel road
way and is obtainable 10" below surface. Road
now good and passable for guns at 7f miles over
ojpen ground on summit of pass (5,300' about).
Easy descent; road requires to be made for guns.
After descent runs over open ground. AtllJ
miles pass dry stream-bed just passable to guns ;
then a brackish stream after which up a hill (1
in 7). A new road would be necessary for guns.
At llj miles fresh spring (49 gallons an, hour).
Reach summit of low plateau which cross and
reach Duzai. Road passable to all arms up to
6^ miles ; from 9 to 11J miles indifferent and
passable for remainder of route. Duzai a small
mud village (about 20 houses). Supplies in
quantities. Road runs hence to Damghan vid
Taglag.
Road first over undulations ; at 3 miles steep des
cent from plateau, and enter stream-bed. At 6
miles leave latter. At 9i miles two stream-beds
join route on left ; through defile 30 yards in
width ; at 10j miles leave stream-bed and march
up valley; cross low saddle and descend over
broken ground to Chashma-Husaini.
Road good and passable to all arms, except for
last mile; it descends throughout. Said to be
a road hence to Rasham as follows
Chahfurakh
Gulaki
Easham
ToXAIi
4 farsakhs.
3 i*
4 n
11
OTer level
plain. Road
ascends over
open ground.
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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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