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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [249r] (502/739)
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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489
No. 201—ttwA/.
T abas to K hap, via GaziTc, Isfidin, fyc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages,
I
Distancbs
in miles.
Eemaeks.
nterme-
diate.
Total.
7
Sultanabad m.
27i
148}
Reach confines of plain at 4J miles. Water is
Ijdng here in sheets from the recent rain. From
here commence a gentle ascent.
At 6 miles over low hills of clay by very stony
road with easy gradients; on left, tops of hills
are covered with snow.
Road divides at 9 miles. One track going to Istind
(bearing 10°) and the other to Garmab.
^ow over open undulating country ; scanty camel
grazing, but grass is cropping up fast.
At lOf miles along a watercourse. Good fire
wood.
Continue down watercourse over light sandy soil;
good road.
Ravine opens out at 14|- miles. Pass a pond of
rain-water.
Up a very gradual ascent at 15f miles.
Leave watercourse and cross a sloping plain cover
ed with ghich'' shrub.
Leave over gentle undulations.
Arrive at Garmab.
Leave Garmab, bearing 335°, and cross hill spurs by
stony road.
At miles track passes under a high rocky hill on
left down a watercourse. On right are spurs
emanating from the Kuh-i-Shabaz. Plenty of
firewood here.
At 6 miles overlook sandy plain covered with
"tagh" jungle; on left is the Kuh-i-Kaibar,
bearing 350°. To right is the Kuh-i-Bamrud,
bearing 100°.
Road good at 7} miles; descending over sandy, un
dulating ground.
Pass a haoz, roofless, but containing water, at Qf
miles.
Cross a river at 10 miles, the Rud-i-Shor ; low
banks; water now 20' by 9"; now fairly fresh
from large amount of drainage into it of rain
water.
On left, at 12 miles, are low hills, 500 yards off.
Sandy soil ceases at 13} miles and ground is
covered with " ghich " shrubs.
Pass village of Buniyabad at 17} miles. Large
herds of camels and flocks of sheep are grazing
on this plain owned by Afghans and Afghan-
Beluch refugees, who number over 1,000 tents in
the Khaf district according to report.
Reach Sultanabad,
Buniyabad, 10 houses, 2 yoke of oxen, 1 kares,
water and supplies scarce. This is the extremity
of Kain district.
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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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