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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎219r] (442/739)

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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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383
No. 180— contcl,
Samnan to Khaf ^ vid Taglag y Zaghleh
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
R emaeks.
H usenabad ...
K hargoshi ..
Diz C hah
G abab
Z aghdeh „
19
22
42
56
78
120
28
148
26
Desert until village is neared. One place, where
there is a harez of water but no inhabitants, is
passed at 10 miles. It is called Tabriz. Large
village of Forat(?), 2 miles distant; Damghan
17 miles.
A spring of bad water in the desert, just drinkable.
This place is inhabited in winter by a few
nomads. Nothing procurable but camels and
sheep. First portion of road from Husenahad
across heavy sand. Then 4 miles of kavir ; then
pass low hills called Panjkuh, after which 6 miles
more of salt desert.
Road passes over a good deal of heavy sand; on
the sandy portion are bushes and bunch-grass.
No drinkable water for 2i miles until Chah Tarn
is reached. Chah Tam has no inhabitants, but
three wells of good water. Water procurable,
by sinking wells to 12 feet through soft
soil, in la»ge quantities. Eoad beyond Chah
Tam very heavy sand. There is a good deal of
bunch-grass and brushwood. Chah Tam is a
halting-place for caravans on the direct road
from Shahrud to Yazd vid Khur. Shahrud is
60 miles from Chah Tam. There is a direct road
from Chah Tam to Bianjumand, A small village
named Diz Chah a little oif the road.
Road from Diz Chah good. At 12 miles passed
well of slightly brackish water, and at 17 miles
another, railed Turkuman Chai. The very small
town of Hiarjumand is seen on the left, distant
7 miles from Turkuman Chai. It is really no
more than a village in size, but it is important,
as it forms a sort of capital to this semi-desert
country, and has a governor, with a few soldiers.
A large village, called Gabar, is reached at 28
miles. Flourishing place. Provisions procur
able in considerable quantities.
174
Several villages
near.
Road from Giabar on leaving- that place crosses a
low range of hills by a rather difficult pass.
Pass can be avoided by a detour of a few miles.
At 2 miles reach a spring of water and two
houses called Anabu (P); from here the road is
good, and crosses a desert country. At 20 miles
from Giabar the ICal Mura (?) or Abreshami river
is crossed. At this season it has not much water
(winter is the season referred to) ; but it brings

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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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