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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [229r] (462/739)
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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403
No. 186— con td,
Sehkoha to Mashad, via Deh-i-Dost Mutiammad, Zainulahad, fyc.
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Kbmabks,
23
Shahraks
16
820
24 CH4SHMA -I-
JSUHUE.
24
844
road
Bizd, lying in the hills some distance off
to left at about 10th mile. At 12tb. mile
we came to a spring of clear water in the
river-bed whicli is here well-wooded with
tamarisk, and a mile or so beyond we entered the
gorge called the Dahana-i-Khangaran, where the
river forces its away between the high rocky hills
on either side. On the far side of this gorge, at
about the 15th mile, are the ruins of an old fort on
the top of a bill commanding the exit from the
gorge known as Kala-i-Dukhtar. Beyond this^
the valley gradually widens out till Ahingaran
is reached at the head of the slope on the western
side of the hills.
The village consists of only ten families of culti
vators living in an old fort with high walls.
#
Supplies not procurable, except in very small quan
tity. Water good from one
\
For first 5 miles road was heavy going through
loose sand, and thence led across a sandy
plain with fair supply of firewood in the shape
of tak and other bushes to village of
Shahraks lying at foot of another range of
hills to N. The village lies within a
quadrilateral, walled enclosure some 70 or
80 yards square, and is said to contain two
hundred families. It has three kanats of water
and 20 ploughs of cutivation.
A long and tiring march over hot, sandy country.
Road led round eastern end of the hills, and
thence across a plain covered with tak and
other scrub jungle to another low range of hilli
named Tagi-Kulangi, at the foot of which, both
on the N. and S. side, we found a well of
good water. Both wells are known by the same
name, Chah Washa, and the northern one, distant
some 10 miles from Shahraks. is the best. Be
yond this we made our way for some 6 miles
across another plain out up considerably by ravines
in places, to a ravine called Sarkun, where a littla
water was obtainable in a nullah-bed by digging
a hole in the sand. Boad then led for another
8 miles across an undulating plain to some
more hills, between which we descended, and then
turning to the left, eventually found our spring
in a pool under a rocky gorge on the northern
face.
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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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