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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [216v] (437/739)
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. 179—
Samnan to Karat, via Tund,
No.
ot
stase.
Names of stages.
D istances
in milbs.
jlnterme-
diate.
Total,
80
II alari
4500'.
31
Chah Huk
3,259'.
41H
B emaeks.
open ground between the Kuh
the low hills which have been
Kasimabad and
011 my left since
the 15th mile on yesterday's route. It would
probably be the best route for guns. Cross dry
watercourse, and pass through a chain of low
hills.
At 5f miles descend between two rocky banks, 12
feet apart, and cross broad shallow watercourse.
Then up and down over deeply undulating ground
running north and south.
At 7? miles reach a haoz on level ground.
At 7f miles cross dry and stony watercourse, banks
perpendicular, except where road crosses. At 9J
miles pass circular haoz \ good water. At 11^
miles cross watercourse and pass through fields.
Road indifferent till miles, fair until 7J miles
and good after. Bajistan has about 1,000 houses;
water plentiful.
Good road, ascending over open ground : pool of
frosh water at 1 mile, north of which Rudgird
village : thence enter defile : at miles main
road runs on to Kameh : take road to left. At
5J miles small spring (fresh). On down gravel
stream-bed, which road leaves at 6J miles and
passes over cultivated ground on its right bank.
At 7i miles cross shallow dry stream-bed. At 8|
miles cross another watercourse; then running
along, over open ground at the foot of a chain of
hillocks on the left, cross a broad and gravelly dry
stream-bed without banks, and at 9f miles reach
fort containing about nine or ten inhabitants.
Road fair throughout and passable to all arms.
Water from stream. A little cultivation about.
About 2 miles to north is village of Kuh-Firuzi.
Road good, ascends over open ground, surrounded
on all sides by low hills. At 2J- miles between
hillocks. At 3 miles it reaches summit of low
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
(4,680 feet), then descends easily,
winding along side of range of hills on left, till
at 3f miles it reaches village of Malab. A pool
of water fed by a chashma. Descend gently
down gravelly dry stream-bed between low hills.
At 5 miles leave hills and go over open plain of
Gunabad. At 6 miles cross a shallow dry water
course. At 7J miles cross similar watercourses,
all draining north, and at 111 miles halt at haoz.
At 12f miles three drj shallow watercourses, then
enter dry watercourse, running east, thence 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).
- 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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