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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [224v] (453/739)
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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394
No. 185— contd,
Saeakhs to Turbat-i-Shekh Jam, via Daolatahad, fyc.
No. of
stage.
Names of stages.
Distances
in miles.
Interme-
diate.
Remakes.
Total.
their cutting canal higher up. ^ Daolatahad, seven
ty Seistani families, and thirty yoke of oxen j
thirty ploughs, wheat, barley, bhoosa, and
water-melons, beside fowls, sheep and some cows,
represent the supplies. These could be largely
increased. The caravan road to Mas had via
Akdarband goes from Daolatabad via Shurja.
Sanoae
1,400',
Pas Kamae
12
20
24
44
River fordable at many points, and nearly dry at
some places. At 8 miles pass ruined village of
Naurozabad. Adjoining is a large marsh, which
drains underground, and by some little brooks into
the Hari Rud. During the dry season this water,
which re-appears in bed of Hari Rud in form
of springs, forms the main supply of water
which goes to both Persian and Russian Sarakhs.
There is a standing dispute on this account be
tween the Russians and Persians. At 4 or 5^ miles
from Naurozabad is Sangar, near the Hari Rud
Sangar contains sixty Seistani families. It has
thirty ploughs and is irrigated by a canal from
the Hari Rud, the head of which is about a mile
above the village.
Direct road to Pas Kamar leaves at 6 miles. Ca
mels and mule transport sent this ^ way, and re
ported good, and shorter by some miles than the
way by Pul-i-Khatun. Pul-i-Khatun distant from
Sangar about 16 miles. Latter part heavy, over
sand. Sl^ir Tappa passed at a mile on left, the
road not passing through it. The modern village
is at the foot of the mound. It contains thirty
families of Kermanis. It has twenty ploughs,
and is irrigated by a canal from the Kashaf Rud.
It formerly possessed a canal cut from the Hari
Rud, but this is in disrepair owing to the river
having washed away its head, which was cut at
too acute an angle with the river. There is also
an old hanat on its south side. Shir Tappa is
close to the river. At Pul-i-Khatun the river
was running strong but apparently fordable.
At Pul-i-Khatun there seemed to be only two
small one-storied barracks, one for the Cossacks,
and one for the infantry. They did not seem
capable of accommodating more than one hundred
men each at the most. The Cossacks horses are
under a rough shed of rough poles, with a thatch
ed roof. The rest of the buildings seemed like
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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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