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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [229v] (463/739)
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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No. 186— contd.
S ehkoha to M ash ad, via Deh-i-Dost Muhammad, Zainulahad, tyc.
No.
of
stage.
1
Distances
in miles.
Eekabks.
Names of stages.
I
nterme
diate.
Total.
25
M uzinabap
13
857
Route led across an undulating plain covered for
the first part with a bush called "hum " which
forms good camel grazing. The latter portion
was hard and good going. The village of Mijna-
bad contains 60 families, three kanats of water
and 14 ploughs of cultivation. Supplies
plentiful; water slightly brackish in the Icanats,
but sweet rain water is procurable from a re
servoir.
The main road from Shahraks to Mijnabad runs
to the east of the route we came, via Bamrud,
Isfideh and Findukht, but is considerably longer.
26
i
H aoz-i- K hwaja
K hizae.
14
871
Boad led across open level plain whole way. The
reservoir at which we encamped is a structure
of burnt brick, and the water is said never to
dry up. It is situated on left bank of a nullah
just to the south of a couple of isolated hills
between which it passes. No habitations and no
supplies.
27
S angijn
7
878
At 4 miles out we passed the Haoz-i-M ulla which
was full of water, and shortly after the Sangun
cultivation commenced, and thence passing various
baghs or walled enclosures full of trees, principally
pines, and the village which lies in a hollow, we
camped by some running water close to the walls
of an old enclosure said to have been built by
Nadir.
The village contains some 500 houses, and has
about thirty-five ploughs of land and two Tcarezes
of water. Supplies plentiful and water good.
28
khas 1
12
890
Road level and good going the whole way,
passing the villages of Barabad, Mehrabad and
Khargird. Khaf village has three Jcanats of
water and fifty ploughs of land under cultivation.
The price of wheat in ordinary years is 2| or 3
tumans per Tcharwar (649 Ibs .J. 'J he village
contains about 800 houses and the people are all
Sunnis. Supplies plentiful and water good.
29
C hashma-i-
S hishae.
11
900
Road led across the open bare plain the whole
way to the spring, here situated just inside the
hills. No supplies or habitations. Water good.
30
K aeit
14
914
Road led through the hills the whole way, as
cending gradually for the first five miles and
then descending again along the banks of a
stream, which, however, is said to dry up in the
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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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