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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [228r] (460/739)
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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401
51
.No. 18G— conld.
SitiKOttA to M ash ad, via Deh-i- Dost SfC.
No.
Distaitcbs
in MILES.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
interme
diate.
Total.
Rbmibks.
11
12
Baeing
Bal-i-kamab ...
18
20
626
646
Road led us over flat, hard, baked plain for first six
miles or so round the end of the flood water till
we struck the hucha or lane, here a long straight
hollow, some ten or twelve feet in width and two
feet in depth, running through the Naizar. Cf»
Route No 148, stages 33, 34 and 85.
Encamped here by the low walls of a fortified
enclosure overlooking the hamun.
We fouud water in the haoz at ]4th mile, the result
of the recent rains; also water in pools in the
river here.
13
Zainulabad ...
10
656
Zainulabad consists of nothing but a small fort,
and supplies have to come from the village of
Tabasain about a mile beyond. Water from a
Tcarez,
14
GrUISHB
30
676
Road led across an open waterless plain covered
with tahgaz with low rocky hills scattered about
on every side. The water here is in the bed of
a shallow nullah, a little above where it passes
between two ranges of hills, and is very brackish,
but tit for animals. No habitation or supplies.
15
Chah-i-Ziran...
19
695
Road runs over same level shrub-covered plain,
surrounded with two hills as before^ At 12th
mile passed the four wells known as Khwaja-i-
Dochah. These wells are about 13 feet deep
(I was told) and contain about 6 feet of water
which never dries up. Chah-i-Ziran contains
no habitations, and no supplies are procurable
here. There is only one well here, but that is
overflowing and is practically a spring.
16
Duruh ...
21
716
From Chah-i-Ziran road divides. One leads N.
by W. along western side of the valley to
Husenabad, distant, it is said^ 11 farsakhs (44
miles) with water at two places, in a river-bed at
the 24th mile and at a well called Chah-i-Bana at
the 32nd mile. The other leads N. by E.
diagonally across the valley and up the slope on
the far side to Duruh at the foot of the hills.
The plain is covered with tak or tahgaz (bushes),
as it is variously called, furnishing an almost
unlimited supply of firewood, as far as the
hamlet of Kabat at the 17th mile. There is
a small Icarez of clear water here.
Duruh is a large village of some 300 houses, where
supplies are plentiful and easily procurable
Water-supply good from two karezes and some
springs.
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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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