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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [216r] (436/739)
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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48
377
No. 179— contd.
S amnan to K arat, via Duzai, Turut, tyc.
No.
»E
stage.
Names of stages.
Distances
in" miles.
Remarks.
Intcrme
diate.
Total.
29
Bajistan
s
n*
401 f
branches off on left to Kasimabad, 3 farsakbs off,
and Pakirabad 7 farsakhs.
miles pass ruined kaoz on right. No water.
Ihen cross a dry watercourse without banks,
bed gravelly. At 7f miles cross a dry water
course without banks, bed gravelly.
M 9 miles road enters gravelly dry stream-bed, 60
teet wide, and runs up it between 2-foot banks.
At 10 miles pass along the foot of a high range
of hills. Road now becomes stony and uneven,
and requires clearing to render it passable to
guns from the 10th to the 13th mile. At 13 miles
leaving the stream-bed it runs over open grounds
between two ranges. At 15 miles it divides,
that to left running up over open ground between
hills to Fakirabad. Take one to right, which
runs up a dry stream-bed with low hills on left
and a range on right. Road fair and passable
to guns : fresh spring at 18 miles: thence over
cultivated ground to Mutkrabad ; good water
(stream). Road good up to 10th mile, impass
able to guns for next 3 miles: fair thence till
18th mile, when indifferent, good for remainder,
Naubhor said to be 1 farsakh N.
Road good over uneven ground : pass spring (fresh);
road thence ascends over broken ground, at 2
miles descend into dry river-bed from banks of
which Muhammadabad village is visible, half a
mile on left: about 1 mile off to right Saulabad
village. Leave stream-bed and at 3 miles reach
summit of pass (about 4,580 feet). Pass would
admit of passage of two columns of fonrs^
Ground to either flank is accessible for skirmi
shers for about 300 yards. The low hills imme
diately north of Muhammadabad have com
manded route since commencement of march, but
they are turnable by a detour to left from
Mutkrabad and are commanded by high ground
east of Saulabad. Bajistan is visible from here
on bearing of 71°. Leaving the
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
,
descend down^ valley between high rocky hills.
At 3| miles hills gradually fall away, when road
still descending runs over open ground. At 4^
miles cross^ dry gravelly stream-bed and skirt
foot of chain of low hills on right. At 5 mi es
reach Chashma Tal-Kowan. Water good. A
few Iliats are encamped here near a tower. On
over open ground past two small springs (fresh).
At 5J miles good road joins on left, coming from
Kaubhor and-Nagenao. It apparently runs over
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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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