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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [252v] (509/739)
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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446
No. 208.
Tabas (W) to Turbat-i-Hatdaei, vCkahardeJi,
Chah, Khalilabad Sultanabad.
Authority — S tewart.
No.
Distances
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
laterme
diate.
Total.
1
2
Chahaedeh ...
Shiekist
(Shieghist).
10
23
10
33
3
Pashna Dobin
(pushna Daeun).
14
47
4
Debm-Naoband
21
68
6
Zangi Shah ..
30
98
6
Abdulibad ...
34
132
7
Khalilabad ...
22
155
8
Sultanabad ...
10
165
9
Ase;and
20
185
10
Kushdaea
9
194
11
Turbat-i-Hai-
daei.
18
212 ,
Eemaeks.
See Route No. 197, stage 1.
Road ascends gradually over sandy plains, with
the Shutari mountains (10,000') 9 miles to the
right, and the Nastandgi range 14 miles to the
left (8,000% At 5 miles pass Deh Shurab. At
18 miles pass through a gorge in the Shutari
range. Here a road goes off to Bajistau. Shir-
kist is a small village, with a large tower and a
tank full of leeehes. Few supplies.
Skirt the Shutari range for 7 miles At 14 miles
reach the village of Pashna Dorin. There are
three other small hamlets near it, Nasratabad,
IVfcehabad and Muhammadabad. Road level.
Water; village. Pew supplies.
Over desolate plain. At 8 miles pass Dasjirdan,
well away on the left. At 14 miles reach the
flourishing village of Deh-i-Naabond; 250 in
habitants. Supplies procurable.
See Index.
Through very barren country, a fine sarai, but
very poor village. Good water. Connects with
Route No. 121 (alternative), stage 9.
The road turns away from the Tcavir in front and
enters a low range, which is a continuation of
the Yakuh hills. At 14 miles Kubogish,—~a well
of stinking water. At 30 miles Allahabad the
first village in the Turshiz district. The Turshiz
plain is very fertile and supplies are plentiful.
Over a fertile plain, bounded by mountains. Pass
the village of Kundur, where there are two
canals, 6' wide, brought from the Shishdraz river.
Khalilabad has been a strong place, but is just
falling into ruin. See Index.
The chief town of the district,—clean, well built,
and once strong. Population 6,000. A great
centre of the silk trade. See gazetteer.
Five miles to Turk, the last village in the Turshiz
district, then over a barren stony plain for 14
miles. Askand is a flourishing village, about 11
miles to the left of the road.
At 4 miles cross a river about 50' wide, with a
strong current and pebbly bottom, course due
north and south. At 9 miles the fort of Khush-
dara, with about 80 inhabitants.
14 miles the road leaves the plain near the
village of Buriabad and passes through some low
hills.
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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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