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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [250r] (504/739)
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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56
Ul
No. %01~~concld.
Tabas to Khap, via Gazilc, Isjldin, tye.
Distances,
i If miles,
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Pass a village on left at 24^ miles.
At 26 miles enter among gardens of fair-sized
village, Khargird, containing 50 houses, an old
fort and 5 yoke of oxen. There is also a school
here.
Pass under a low hill to left at 27J miles. The
soil in valley is red and sandy ; crops are good but
water scarce. The rocky hill overlooking Rui
bears 285 Q .
Reach Rui. Approximate elevation 3,266'.
The town lies below a grey jagged and rocky hill,
and is surrounded by a mud wall now very much
decayed enclosing about 300 yards by 200 yards,
but to north and south of town, houses extend
beyond the walls.
Rui contains 1,000 houses and owns 100 yoke of
oxen, 500 jaribs of gardens, 30 shops, 2 hammams*
30 windmills, 2 watermills. There is a large
colony of Hindus here, who seem to prosper.
Prices: 8 maunds chaff
4 „ barley >per kran.
2 „ bread ... )
For further description of Rui, see Gazetteer of
Persia.
No. 202.
Tabas (W) to Khur, via Pusht-i-Badam.
Authority — (U nknown) .
No.
Distances.
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Ebmaeks.
1
Chahaedeh ...
Hi
m
Excellent road, over level gravelly plain. Group
of small villages, with a fine new caravansarai.
Supplies and water.
2
Shoeab
18i
29|
Road level and very good for miles. Then
enter bed of a shallow nullah. At 15f miles a
^ort aseent on to a gravelly plateau.
A ruined earavansarai. Water slightly brackish.
Supplies scarce, sold by one resident.
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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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- 'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III'
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