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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [211v] (427/739)
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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868
No. yi^^eonid
Samnan to Karat, Buzai, Tmt, fye.
fro.
D istances
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
EEmBKS,
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•
Pass between two rocks. At 17| miles cross summit
of spur from whence Rezeh is visible. Then
descending cross another watercourse, and at 17f
miles halt at Eezeh.
Road good up to 14J miles. Indifferent for the
remainder of the route, yet passable to all arms
throughout.
A hamlet consisting of two or three huts and a
couple of towers.
Supplies—slieep 20; goats 300. Best camping-
ground is between 16^
chashma and old v • ! i
village. n , i y
Wafprpttoniifnl frnm !
12*
Tcanat stream. (See Section). Estimated height
of the Kuh-i-Rezeh, 6,000'-
10
*
Chah Palano...
1
m
149
Pass ruins of old village, then descend gently over
open ground. At miles cross dry water
course. Then over broken ground amongst water
courses and little hillocks. Cross dry watercourse*
and cross its numerous branches, which are separ
ated from each other by hillock chains through
which, road defiles. At 5 miles leave watercourse
and march over open ground. At miles
descend into a broad and gravelly dry stream-bed,-
which, skirting the foot of the Ander Kuh, runs
north-east into the Icavir, Pass along water
course. At 7i miles cross stream of very brackish
water, fit for transport animals only.
Ascend out of stream-bed and march along drain--
age line of a valley bounded by long and continu
ous range of the Kuh-i-Shutur on left and a chain
of low mountains on right. Ground is covered
with good pasturage for camels and goats. At
8J miles it becomes sandy. At llf miles it
consists of a fine hard gravel. Cross a water
course without banks.
Then ascend to low water shed in the valley (4,540').
Thence descend gently along dry and shallow
watercourse. Road fair and passable to all arms,
but from 4s\ to 7f miles difficult for guns. Well
at Chah Palang, said to be good. Chah Tusbin
hence, 3 miles off (well).
11
,
Chassma Ba-
LUCH.
3,500'.
<
17f
166|
Road good over open ground. At 63- miles stony
and cut up. At 12|- miles leave road and go
across country to Chashma Baluch. Road pass
able to all arms j good camping-ground for a
large force.
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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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