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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎237r] (478/739)

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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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415
No. 189— conid.
Shahrud to Bujndrd, vi& Jajarm.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Distancbs
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
E emakks.
J ajarm
K arashah
39f
95J
Tovab
13
123J
136J
At 9f miles pass hamlet K.alata and erardens. i
mile left. 4
At 12^ miles, over level desert, reach wide ravine
with perpendicular banks of 20 to 30 feet, mark
ing former drainage line. In bed of ravine is
copious brackish spring, known as Chagul Chash-
mak.
Thence bend north-east over broken plain with
sparse, desert herbage, and at 25^ miles reach
village Riabad of 20 or 30 inhabited houses.
Supplies unprocurable and water bad.
From sta^e near east-north-east, over gravelly
plain, thickly covered with bushes of wild rue
and thorny herbage. At 12 miles reach ruined
caravansarai, known as Robat-i-Savang, with
good^ spring of water and traces of extensive cul
tivation.
Thence nearing still about east-north-east, towards
mountains bounding plain to north at 23 miles
touch hillskirt. At 27 miles, passing over a
very rough stony tract much broken by ravines,
reach spring and watch-tower of Kah Baba.
Thence at 39J miles reach fort and village of Ja
jarm, passing over 3J miles of rough ravine-cut
hillskirt below Kuh Baba. Supplies plentiful.
See Index.
iVojte.—Except at the places noted, no water
is procurable on or near the line of route»
Prom Jajarm, near east-north-east, over a level
and partially cultivated plain for 5 or 6 miles.
Thence over level desert plain to Tiaoz (18J miles),
a small cistern filled by surface drainage, the
only water on the line between Jajarm and the
cultivated lands of the Sanghas villages. Behind
a prominent, red hillock, about 2 miles to the
north, is said to be a good spring. Thence to
Karashah, at 28| miles, passing at 25 miles vil
lage Jafirabad.
Karashah, 60 houses. Supplies plentiful.
Leave village on nearing north-north-east.
At 3J miles reach bed of stream, dry in summer
and autumn, and entrance of Darband defile.
Bend north up pass, following stony bed of stream
or level, alluvial strips, and at 5 miles pass village
Kafr, | mile left. Road commanded by spurs
cf mountains to left and right. Above Kafar
glen narrows, but road continues level and good.
At miles reach hamlet Darband, at which point
hillskirts close in to watercourse.
Thence ascend easily over broken ground to open*
ing of gorge on to plain of Shaughan at 9 miles.

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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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