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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [218v] (441/739)
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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No. 179— conoid.
S amnan to K arat, via Diizai, Turut, fye.
-
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istatjces
in miles.
RfiMABESr
Inter
mediate.
Total.
believe, at least one parallel route and several lar^e
towns which are not shown on existinor maps.
For instance, Khar to the north of Reza is said
to be a place of about 1,000 houses, and a centre
of desert communications.
From Bajistan to Jumain, 29J miles, the road is
good ; water plentiful, and towns and villages,
whence supplies might be drawn, are near the
route.
From Jumain to Nistafan near Rui Khaf the
route appears to be fairly well watered, with the
exception of Kalat Ali.
The road is good but for the very difficult descent
over the eastern slope of the Khaibar Kuh,
Supplies are plentiful between Jumain and Nao-
dehpeshan, but from thence until Nistafan is
reached nothing is obtainable except sheep and
goats. All other supplies would have to be
carried. During the months of June, July and
August the heat on this route is excessive.
March, April and May are the best months for
movements, when the climate is milder and the
water-supply considerably larger. A vast sup
ply of it might be obtained by the construction
of dams and shallow tanks by which means
shepherds maintain thousands of sheep for weeks
together out in the desert during spring time,
when grass and herbage abound everywhere
except on the itself.
No. 180.
S amnan to K haf, vid Taglag, Zaghdeh, BardasJcand and SaJchabad.
A u S te w a kt.
No.
D istances
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
E emarks.
1
G aemab m.
u
14
Small spring of good water; four houses ; no pro
visions procurable; small ruined caravansarais.
2
Taglag ...
23
37
At 14 miles flourishing but small village of
Duzdahir. Taglag is a small spring of good
water; no inhabitants.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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