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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [214r] (432/739)
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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378
No. Vl§-~contd t
Samnan to Karat, vi & Buzai, Turuty fyc.
D istances
IN MILES.
%
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages,
I
nterme-
diate.
Total.
Bbkabss.
21
Chah Pali ...
4,650'.
304i
Road up dry stream-bed. At | of a mile
cross dry, shallow watercourse and ascend
gently ^ by fair road amongst broken ground,
high hills on all sides a few miles off. At 2
miles enter dry stream-bed and proceed up it
between hillocks. At 3 miles road is no longer
passable to guns. At 3^ miles reach the water
shed of the range. Elevation about 5,300 feet.
To right a ridge 800 yards long is thrown out
which connects hills to right and left. These
hills, however, command it within 800 yards
distance, while ridge . itself overlooks valley
beneath, along which road runs for more than
a mile. This forms a strong position of defence
facing towards Chah Pali, but would be indefen
sible against au advance from north. Descend
by fair track, 9 feet wide, gradient—8°; then
down along a gravelly stream-bed between two
ranges of rocky hills. At 5f miles leave stream-
bed and halt at Chah Pali. Road indifferent for
guns. Port small garden and cultivation. Large
flocks of sheep and goats. Water from stream.
Tusherik 3^ miles to south-west, Karimabad
village miles east.
22
23
Haoz
Chah Ali
3,000'.
IQi
13
314|
327J
Good road; at 2|- miles reach fort of Yak-Ab
range ; then down broad and gravelly water
course ; at 5 miles road curves round eastern
extremity of the Yak-Ab range: leave water
course at 5f miles and descend in southerly
direction through opening in hills. Road good
over vast expanse : at 6J miles position of chashma
marked by clump of trees : old kaoz at 10 miles ;
thence^ along high road (from Badar Askan to
Yazd) in southerly direction. Halt at ]0| miles;
haoz ; water good. Road passable to all arms
throughout.
A large expanse of white kavir is visible extending
from here to Bajistan. It is said to be impass
able, and is so in all probability, as my camel-
driver refused to cross at any cost.
Road good, over perfectly level open plain. At
2i miles cross dry watercourse. At 4 miles
cross road from Dehnoband to Zangi-chah, then
cross dry stream-bedj and at 4J- miles north-east
extremity of range of hills ; thence march over
open ground between hills on right and kavir of
Bajistan on left. At 6^ miles two wells of water,
50 yards apart—one on right, water indifferent,
and the other on left road (water bad). Then over
depression.
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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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