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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [247r] (498/739)
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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435
No. 200.
Tabas (W) to Khaf, via Bushruyeh, Tun and Gunahad,
Authority~~lsl\5S'm A li and M ac G regor.
D istances
No.
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
E bmabxs.
D aea B it
D eh M uhammad
A spak
B usheuyeh ,
R obat-i -S hoe
T un
• M
• •I
See Index.
Kobat, with haoz.
4 farsakhs.
5 „
5
6
7 „
7
Water procurable everywhere from kanats and
abamhar,
MacGregor gives the remainder of the route as follows :—
The road is between hills, and crosses a pass. Vil
lage ; water; supplies.
' The road is over a gravel plain, and is quite good
the whole way; supplies. See Index.
The road is over sand. Water from wells. No
supplies.
The road is over a plaini
iVbft?.—The last four distances are considerably under-estimated, as it is at least 120
miles from Tun to Khaf.
7
K alat
17
8
G unabad
♦ t •
14
9
C amp
17
• t f
10
K haf
t ••
24
208
No. 201.
T abas (E) to K hap, via GaziJc, Isjldin, Garmah and Sultanahad,
Authority — N apier , 1893.
No.
of
stages.
Names of stages.
Distanchs
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
heu&bks.
F ueo
(F uek)
17
Leave Tabas, bearing 275°, and descending slightly
cross the tfakh Eud (now dry) at 4 miles.
Ground then gradually rises from river-bed and
bears almost straight on castle of Furg just-
inside the hills at the mouth of a broad ravine j
country here bears but scanty camel grazing and
no fuel.
Passing two Tiaozes en route, now empty, reach
castle of Furg. Furg-i-Darmiyan contains 4C0
houses and owns 32 yoke of oxen, 500 donkeys
2.000 sheep, 5 watermills, 1,300 jaribs of garden,
maliyat 500
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
. There is a detachment
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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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