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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [249v] (503/739)
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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440
No. 201— contd.
Tabas io Khap, via Gazih, Isfidin, fyc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Distances
ik miles.
Bekabes.
Interme
diate.
Total.
8
i
Rui K hap
29}
i
177 J
Sultanabad. Approximate elevation 2,555'»
thermometer in air 59°, at 9 p.m ., March 8th • k)
houses, 500 sheep, no Jcarez but 2 or 3 wells of
brackish water.
Ibrahimi, a village about 2 farsakhs north-west (?) of
Sultanabad, contains 50 houses and owns 3 j^oke
of oxen, 1,000 sheep and 30 camels. For further
description of Sultanabad, see Gazetteer of Per
sia.
Leave Sultanabad, bearing 20°, and traverse a
nearly bare plain. From here the village of Nish-
tafun bears about 45°. (300 houses, and owns
50 yoke of oxen, 4,000 sheep, 200 camels, 200
asses and 5 shops). Rui bears north behind the
Kuh Sinao, a rocky hill of no great height. On
right is the Kuh-i-Bakharz^
To left is a round hill in the far distance, Kuh-i-
Namech, bearing 340°, and further round still is
the Kuh-i-Khaibar, bearing 290°. Ibrahimi bears
305°. The Kuh-i-Nehur bears 170°.
At 5J miles back bearing to Sultanabad 34°. For
ward bearing to Nishtafun 46 0,
Cross a river-bed, at 6^ miles, slightly moist.
At 13| miles Kuh Sinao bears 305°; soil gravelly,
plain descends gently ; there is some camel graz-
ing.
At 15 miles the ground is covered with a kind of
low grass, " bandak."
Cross a ridge at 161 miles and come in sight of
Nishtafun, where is a row of splendid evergreen
pines," nargui."
Immediately in front, at 17J miles, is a salt stream,
and beyond are the trees and gardens of Nish
tafun.
Beyond them on the opposite slope of the depres
sion is village of Nishtafun.
Past gardens at 18J miles.
Come out on to a gravelly plain at 19J miles ; scon
after grass and crops are visible.
On a good road over flat country at 20J miles.
On left is a low range of hills in two tiers, the
nearest being about two miles off. Many miles
to right is a range tipped with snow, the
Bakharz Kuh.
This is a fertile valley.
Pass village of Mirabad at 22J miles. Here also
are pine-trees. Mirabad has 20 houses and 5 yoke
of oxen.
Pass two streams at 22f 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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