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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [245v] (495/739)
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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432
No. 197.
Tabas (W) to Damghan, v \& Chahardehy Jaf&rn and Khur.
^ o —M ac G r e g o r •
Distakces
IN MILKS.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
E bmabis,
Chahabdeh
2 Shoiiab
3 J aiabu
Dobin
10
18
5 Chah Mehji ..
24
17 h
U
MEHBJAIT
54
10
28
62
69h
831
1371
The road is quite level the whole way over plain;
First mile to imamzada Jafu over sand, then
6 miles more of sand, last 3 miles through culti
vation. Small village. Supplies and good
water. 50 houses. Date-palms. Cf, Koute Ko.
242, stage 5.
Road level and good the whole way. It passes for
first 4 miles over heavy sand, then 2 miles over
gravel. Passing a salt waste it ascends from it,,
and at 7 miles, a level waste, over which it goes
as far as 9| miles, where there is a river-bed and
a haoz of water. Traversing a level waste for
2 miles, it enters another river-bed, up which it
leads for half a mile. At 13J miles it passes a low-
ridge by a gorge, and after crossing a few salt
ravines enters Shorab. Water. Few supplies.
Soad level up the valley. At 9 miles road branch,
es off to Biabanak sami. Few supplies. G-ood
water 2 miles beyond. Cf. Route No. 243,
stage 5.
Road ascends very gradually through a valley with
hills close on either side for 8 miles. It then'
descends equally easy between hills for 9| miles-
No supplies. Bad water ; good 2 miles off.
Road over stony plain, descending for half a mile,,
next over sand and gravel to 5| miles, then over
gravel to 7 miles, last 7 miles over sand. No-
supplies. Beastly water. Hence to Halwan is
63 miles.
Road winds for 3| miles among sand-hills, theni
enters on heavy sand plain. Go over this for
7 miles. Then for 14 miles over kavir, very
difficult travelling for animals, owing to nu
merous holes. Thence for 6 miles across sandy
waste of Sagardu, which consists of undulating
ridges of the heaviest possible sand with no
traoe of a road, and most dangerous without a
guide. Thence for 9f miles over gravel bearing
280° to haoz Mirza in ruins; | mile beyond
cross bed of salt or clay. At 2J miles further
bearing 270°, another old haoz. At If miles
farther still, over gravel, another old haoz. 2
miles more of gravel, and another old haoz~
Thence 3| miles over Jcavir to several dry water
courses, draining south-east. Thence 5 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).
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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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