'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [215v] (435/739)
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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376
No. 179— conid.
Samnan to Karat, v %& Duzaiy Turut > tyc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
E emaeks.
Total.
26 Haoz-i-Hajti
Abbas.
27 Haoz-i-Haji
mibas.
3,250'.
28
Mutkbabad
15
355i
3701
Branch from Nagenao route hy Doruna.
1. Doruna
2. KaTir Kuslik ...
3. Chashma
390^
D istances.
Inter
medi
ate.
Total.
Miles.
Miles.
19f
...
20|
...
71
471
...
E emaezs.
Road fair and passable to
all arms. Small walled
town. Water (kanat). Sup-
plies in small quantities.
Road good and passable to
all arms in dry weather,
but not so after heavy rain,
when detour round kavir
would be necessary. Ham
let with little cultivation.
Water plentiful, 400 sheep
and goats, 20 camels, a
horses.
Road passable to Infantry
only; except with consider
able labour which would ba
necessary for guns.
Good hard gravel road, descending to Jcavir: pass
town on right and Jcanat stream: then over
sandy plain; village at 1^- miles on over open
ground: village of Rigon at 2J miles; large supply
of excellent water here, thence over sandy ground ;
at S miles all vegetation ceases; at SJ miles brick
bridge of 6 spans across salt river. Road pass
able to all arms but not in rainy weather. Water
good.
Good road over open ground.
At 10| miles cross dry stream-bed, banks easy.
Road then passes rocky range of high hills, about
4 miles off on right. At 15 miles reach a haoz.
Road good and passable to all arms.
This march^ is frequented by Arabs from the
Gunabad direction in the cold weather, who bring
large flocks and herds with them. Thev obtained
water from wells said to be 120 feet deep.
Road good, over open gravel soil. At 1J miles
cross dry watercourse without banks, bed gra
velly. Road now commences to ascend gently
towards high range of hills. At 3f miles a road
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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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