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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [226v] (457/739)
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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393
No. 185— concld.
S arakiis to T uebat-i -S hekh J am, Daolatahad.
1*0.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istaitcbs
iit miles.
E emaeks.
[nterme-
diate.
Total.
*
td meet tlie Prince Rulcn-ttd-Daula at Zovadab;
It is, however, not quite fit for wheels in its pre
sent state, path being narrow in many places,
and cut up. Gradients on both sides are easy r
and the soil soft and easily worked. Pass pre
sents no obstacle to construction of cart-road or
railway. The other pass which goes to Mah-
mudabad (see remarks last stage) is said, to be even
easier. Passing the Yakhak spring at foot of
descent arrived at Chashma (xul at \2i, Heie is a
good supply of fairly ^ good water. Thence to
Jam it is quite easy going over the plain. The
village of Yakutan is passed at 3 miles from Jam.
It has one hundred and twenty families of J amis.
There are twelve yoke of oxen, and supplies of
wheat, bnrley and lucerne procurable in con
siderable quantities. The whole route from Pas
Kamar to Jam (water and supplies) as above des
cribed, apparently presents no difficulties of a
serious nature to the construction of cart-road or
railway. In winter none of the passes are closed
except occasionally during the actual progress
of a snow-storm. It furnishes a direct line of
communication from the Russian dominions alon^
the eastern border of Persia completely flanking
Afghanistan. Hence to Mohsinabad is 24 miles
and thence on to Taiabad, 14 miles.
No. 186.
t0 M ashad, via, Beh-i-Dost Zainwlahad, Ahingaran,
Shahraks, Khaf an
Authority —C. E. Y ate , D ecember 1893 to A pril 1894,
No.
of
stage.
c/
Distances
IN MILES.
Bbmabks*
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
1
Buej-1- K ohna ...
9
629
Connects with Section I at Sehkoha.
Road lay over a high gravel-covered plateau for
the first 6 miles when the canal was reached ; here
nearly 30 yards in width and unfordable
except in one place where the road to Luf crosses
it. We passed along the top of a long, high
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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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