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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎219v] (443/739)

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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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884
No. 180— contd.
Samnan to Khaf, via Tag lag, Zaghdeh, fyc.
No.
D istances
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
E bmaeks.
down a considerable body of water in sprinc
This stream, in March, was very full. (This
was higher up its course, at Pul Abreshami on
the Mashad and Tehran road.) The water in the
lower part of its course is far Salter than that of
the sea. Such was the case where crossed near
Zugdi. In the upper part of its course the water
is said to be fit for use, but not so here
This river is one of the causes of the large piece
of Jcavir which extends towards Khur. (Query.—
Is not the saltness of river caused by the Jcavir h.
At 6 miles after crossing it, a well of good water'
called Zaghdeh, is reached. No inhabitants. *
8
Taurun , or
T UBUN .
22
196
At 6 miles pass ruins of a village with some very
brackish water, called Shur-chah. At 10 miles
pass ruined village of Haizami (p) with a small
stream of good water. Inhabitants had deserted
it in consequence of Turkoman raids, but will,
rio doubt, soon re-occupy it as Turkoman raiding
in this part of the country has now been stopped
by the Russian occupation of the Akhal Teke
country. At 22 miles reach a plain with 18
small hamtets, called Taurun. Water good and
plentiful. Provisions scarce.
9
Kalan-chih ...
17
213
At 2 miles pass a small hamlet, called Kariz,
with good water. At 17 miles Kalan-chah is
leached. Merely a well in the desert. Another
weJ is near, at which a few Baluchi nomads were
encamped.
10
K asimabab ...
32
245
Road good passes over an uninhabited country.
^ jm 1 ! 68 ™^f 11 o£ ^ ood water is cached,
called Tahan Mulk. More wells could easily be
dug, as they need only be very shallow. At 32
miles the small village of Kasimabad is reached :
water plentiful. Supplies in small quantities.
11
12
Baedaskakd
Sakhabad
20
27
265
292
After leaving Kasimabad a small stream of good
water is passed ; then at 4 miles the small village
of Dhan-Kala (P). At 14 miles the village
Anarbat is reached, and from thence the whole
country is full of villages, the fertile plain of
iursniz having been attained.
Road leads across the plain of Tursliiz. Many
villages. At 10 miles the large village of Kun-
fo il. .^^7 ^l 68 reach considerable village
of Sakhabad. Water plentiful. Supplies in con
siderable quantities. Sultanabad, capital of
lurshiz district, 5 miles distant.

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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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