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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [254v] (513/739)
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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450
No, 211— conid.
T abriz to K ahmanshah^ via Binal, Lailan, fyc
D istances
I If MILES.
No.
of
Names of stages.
stage.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Ajabshik
2U
4 binab
56
12i
bbmabks.
low ndge, and descend by easy
lake lying
At 1 mile clear gardens of Gugan, and follow
narrow devious track south through cultivated
valley ; hills on left touching road.
At miles eater defile commanded by steep crests
of oO' to 100', path narrow, but passable for
guns.
At 3^ miles clear defile and traverse open plateau
draining north-west and south-west into lake
Urmia.
At 6 miles cross
gradients.
At 8 miles emerge on plain opening on
2 miles right.
At lOj miles pass village Khanian, 40 houses, and
enter glen commanded by low, easy hills.
At 12^ miles cross low ridge and descend over un
dulating plateau to small stream flowing into
lake. Road from Khanian comes in along
stream on right rear.
At 15| miles pass small guard-house, and follow
glen commanded by low hills, 100 to 600'.
At 16| miles cross low ridge into glen draining
south-wept into lake.
At 18|- miles cross spur south of stream and
descend into cultivated open plain, 19j miles.
Alternative road turns off left, clinging to hill-
skirt, and, passing through Khanagha, joins lower
road some miles on.
Thence 3 miles to Ajabshir, large village of 300
houses, with extensive gardens.
Road throughout practicable for guns, or easily
improvable.
Six hours.
Leave Ajabshir and bear south-east across culti
vated plain.
At half a mile cross the Karachai, small stream
flowing in wide bed with perpendicular banks,
10 to 12' high, gravelly bottom.
At 1J miles pass through village Tappa, 15 houses,
and bear east to foot of hills. Road from Khana
gha comes in left rear.
Thence skirting hills closely, pass 3f miles village
Khudaru, 50 houses on cultivated plain extend
ing to shore of lake, distant If miles.
At 5 miles, leave hillskirt, and enter wide expanse
of pasture and mud flats. Road to town of
Maragha, distant 10 miles, turns off left.
At 7J miles over flats, crossed by paved causeway,
20' wide, depression filled in spring ^ by
water of lake, and difficult to pass at all times
after rain.
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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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