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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [213r] (430/739)
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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371
No. 179 ~~contd.
Samnan to Karat, via Duzai ) Turut ) fyc.
No.
D istances
in milks.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
R smaeks,
17
Chashha Dubob
16
258|
Koad over open ground and good. At 2J miles
runs over hard gravel soil. Level and open to
both banks for half a mile. At 3 miles, after
passing a low chain of hillocks on left, ascend
dry stream-bed, 40 yards wide between hillocks.
Leave it at 3^ miles and pass over broken ground.
At miles a gentle descent commences down a
dry stream-bed amongst hillocks, 20 feet high.
The stream-bed is 60 yards wide and consists of
hard gravel.
At 6i miles leave stream»bed and emerge on open
plain (good grazing). At SJ miles road crosses
kavir which it leaves at 9 miles and goes towards
range of hills ^at 11|- dry stream-bed; at 12J
crosses road (said to be direct one from Anarak to
Mashad). Road now good over level (3,600 ; ),
then descend at 14J miles dry streanubed : at 16
miles turn to right and leave stream-bed and halt
at Chashma Dubor.
Road fair throughout and passable for all arms,
Fresh water. 3| miles to W. is Chashm»
Nahain.
Good camping-ground for large force.
28
Camp in peseet
\2l
270J
Road good and runs down dry stream-bed between
hills. At 1J miles leave stream-bed and cross
open ground, descending gently. At 2|- miles
descend into dry watercourse over sandy bank
by a 2-foot track which requires cutting away
for guns. Then down stream-bed. At 3 miles
pass between rocks, 25 feet apart. Road good,
winds along down the stream-bed.
At 5 miles it emerges from low hills, and at 5J
miles branches off to left across country. The
track, which goes straight on ahead, runs to
Tabas. Road now over an immense open plain
covered with bunch grass and shrubs X between
two ranges of hills.
At 7J miles reach river Kal Lada, 250 yards in
width from bank to bank. The bed (sand and
fine gravel) is 150 yards wide. In its centre runs
a rapid stream. Water salt.
In flood, where the water now is, the depth would
probably be about 3 feet, in other places about 2
feet. It then turns south-west and flows into
the kavir, which is about 4 miles off.
Elevation about 2,950 feet.
Cross river and at 30 miles pass through number
of tamarisk bushes. At 12i miles halt amonff
them.
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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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