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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [236r] (476/739)
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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413
No. 188— contd,
S ena to H amadan, via B ijar.
D istances
in miles.
No.
of Names of stages,
stage.
Interme
diate.
Total.
E emabks.
4% hours. —On right, curious conical peak. Four
miles away had appearance of snow, but, being
so low, it must have been gypsum.
Village Kultapa close by on right: this
village seen 4 miles before arriving at it.
5J hours. —Small stream flowing E. to W.
5f hours, —Among small hills. To left, 50 yards,
a icarez,
6^ hours. —To right front Hamadan mountains.
6% hours. —Grove of trees to left, hence road
leads off to village Sabashi f mile away to
right. A salt and a fresh spring: about 100
houses : large square residence : caravansarai:
a few plantations of trees (poplars); road makes
a loop to the Hamadan road, the base of which
on the Hamadan road is 2| miles.
Between low round-topped hills. Ascend a little,
and then go down bearing more east.
| hour. —Reach high road, and then direction 170°,
Get to undulating plain, which we see right down
to Hamadan. Undulating and well cultivated.
Road now gradually descends.
1\ hours. —Get into a kind of valley running north
and soutb, with a stream running through it. To
north well cultivated, with fruit trees and poplars
along bank of stream. About ^ mile north village
of Amla Pain : few houses and square residence.
Half mile further Amla Bala, and another square
residence. Close to latter two mounds with what
looked like two small watch towers on them.
2\ hours. —On left small fort or residence and village
of
Lakh
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
.
2\ hours. —Cross small, dry river bed.
2-50.—Village of Karatash | mile right rear. Being
in a hollow, we did not see it as we passed. Large
flocks of sheep and goats.
3 — Pass through gardens of village Hasan-
kishlaki : along dry river-bed for 300 yards.
5J hours* —On right a dry harez.
51 hours. —Village of Khusiab Ma (half deserted).
Slate rocks. Little cultivation.
5| hours, —Village of Khushiab Pain : gardens.
7 K hushiab
12 115 Direction 150°.
8 H amadan
15 130 Direction S.
Eoad passes north of village, and turns south-east
towards Hamadan. In village usual square resi
dence and gardens.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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