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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [228v] (461/739)
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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402
No. 186— conii.
Sehkoha to Mashad, via Deh-i-Dost MnJiammad, Zarnulahad, Sf'd.
No
D istances
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
interme
diate.
Total.
R bmaeks.
17
M akhunak ...
12
728
Road led across a bare plain between low hills
for first 5 miles, and then up bed of a
nnllali for the rem Binder. The village here is
nothing but a collection of a few huts in a ravine
in the midst of the hills inhabited by some 20
families of Sunnis of Arab origin ; no supplies
procurable. Water good from a spring which,
however, is said to almost dry up in hot weather.
}8
Reza
17
745
Road continued up bed of nullah for first 3
miles, and passing an orchard and a spring
with two pools of water, led across some
undulating ground between the hills for another
3 or 4 miles till it struck a dry nullah, down
the bed of which it wound for 6 miles or
so, till it cleared the hills and then struck across a
gradually sloping valley to the village here. The
road was stony and tiring throughout, but offered
no difficulties to either mules or camels.
Water good from a Jcarez and supplies procurable
in small quantit}'.
19
Tabas
12
757
The road led up the stony bed of a nullah for the
first 6 miles to the watershed, and then down
again for some 2 miles into the Sunnikhana
valley, and thence across the plain to this village.
Another road leads via Dastgird, but is consider
ably longer. Four harezes of water. Supplies
plentiful and water good.
20
Gazik
14
771
Road good and level most of the way. About 6
miles out we were shown to our right, at the foot
of the hills, the site of a warm spring known as
G-armab, when nearing Gazik we struck the bed
of the nullah and worked our way up it right
into camp.
21
Gulmiean ...
14
785
Road led along the top of the slope at the foot of
the hills on the east side of the valley. About half
way passed a small Jcarez and a pool of water
at a place called Mark, but otherwise there is no
habitation or cultivation along the road which
runs through barren dasht the whole way.
Gukniran consists of only six houses and no sup
plies are obtainable. Water good.
22
A HIN ^a R an m.
19
804
Road led gradually up for the first 5 or 6
miles to a low Jcotal over the hills, and thence
descended steadily till we passed a hamlet called
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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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