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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [227r] (458/739)
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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399
No. 186— contd*
Sehkoha to M ash ad, via Deh-i-Dost Mnhammacl, Zainulalad, fye.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Intermc
diate.
Total.
Bbaubss.
-I-
K hwaja A hmad
M ilak
D eh G huiam ..
D eh-i -D ost M u
hammad.
10
10
10
639
549
559
565
bund built to keep tbe canal from overflowing
the land to the south, where there was already
a good-sized lake in a hollow. This village,
now known as Burj-i-Kuhna is the same as the
Burj-i-Alam Khan marked on the map: 1,000
houses: supplies plentiful.
Camp on left bank of canal, which is here some
50 yards broad and about 9 feet deep. Road
passed through Kala-i-nao, a good sized village.
Thence the road crosses the gravelly plateau till
arrival here. We passed a large extent of
inundated ground on our left most of the way.
From Khwaja Ahmad to the Bandi-i-Sistan is four
miles.
Khwaja Ahmad consists, it is said, of some 300
wattle and daub huts scattered about on the
banks of the canal.
Road ran almost the whole way down left bank o£
river, through tamarisk. We passed on our way
ruins of Shahristan, said to be situated on an
island between two branches of the canal and
quite uninhabited ; a little to the north was
the village of Sharifabad. To our right front
on the opposite bank are the ruins of Nad-i-Ali
consisting of three mounds.
This is the last village on this side of the Chilin-
gak district; some three miles out we came to the
first branch of the river; here a strong running
stream, some 60 yards broad and 5 and 6 feet
deep. All the baggage had to be crossed over
in two tutins. The horses and mules were
swum across by the Turkoman sowars. The
camels with tents were able to cross at a ford,
some 300 yards below, where the water just came
up to their saddles.
For the next seven miles road led through dense
tamarisk jungle, with small hamlets and clear
ings every here and there. Camp pitched on left
bank of second branch of the river, which here runs
between very low banks: supplies from Milak.
From the crossing place I rode first some three
miles up the right bank of the stream to the
bund known (as far as I could ascertain) as the
Band-i-Afghan. Along the old bed of the river,
there now flows from the bund a stream only some
20 or 30 yards wide and three or four feet deep.
About two miles down the left bank of the
latter we came to the small Afghan village of the
Deh-i-Do situated on the right bank under some
padah trees. Just beyond and to the north of
this the stream divides into two—one branch
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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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