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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [242r] (488/739)
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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425
No. 191— conoid,
StTLTANABAD to K ashan^ via Khugan and NaraJc,
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Intei-me
diate.
Naeak
Hasaneud
K ashan 4m
24
14
21
Total.
821
96|
im
E emabks.
Passed out through gardens with streams through
them, until at f mile, cultivation was reached,
then down hili into open country and straight
eastward to a ford of the river, thence by good
road to Hafshahgird village at 10 miles: 15
houses : 50 people. River bed here 250 yards
broad, with considerable amount of water: difficult
of passage when in flood : said to be a bridge
opposite _ Numawar village. From ford, con
tinued direct for Dilijan village at 14 miles :
prosperous place with, many houses; it is a
station on road between Kum and Isfahan ; (of
which the stages are Naizar, Dilijan, Miar,
Robat, Murchikhurt) ; thence continued up
gentle slope to Narak between two ranges of
hills : at 20 miles, a well constructed abambar :
at 24 miles large straggling village of Narak •
800 houses; 3,000 people, 48,000 lbs. of grain
sown yearly. Water from stream. Said to be a
turbulent place.
Continued north-east through village gardens and up-
on to edge of very deep ravine,^ the other side of
which was the abrupt scarp of a curious long
hill. Road very stony and gradually rose tifl
the hills were reached, thence winding along their
bases, at 4§ miles, joined a road going north to
small district named Jasl. At 6 miles head of
a pass, thence due east gently descending among
small hills and emerging on small fertile pjaiir.
At 8 miles Jushak village and' at^ 8J miles
Mehrud village: at 11 miles, opposite small
spring on left side of valley, Kumar village seen :
at 14 miles reached Mashad village, a large place
of pilgrimage for surrounding districts; thence
followed bed of a stream for about 4 miles and
reached Hasanabad at 14 miles; 100 houses
450 people, 10,400 lbs. of grain sown yearly.
Through some low hills and then out into sloping
plain between the outer and inner hills; at 2
miles passed Chenar village: at 9 miles entered
broken ground and then into torrent bed : at 11
miles reached Gul Abbasabad from hills above
which Kashan was visible: at 14 miles another
river bed, crossing which rounded a point of the
hill and emerged into plain above Kashan: Fin
about 2 miles to ri^ht: at 21 miies reached tele
graph office at Kashan. (See Gazetteer.)
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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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