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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [255v] (515/739)
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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453
No. <£11— contd.
T abriz to K armanshah, via Binah, Lailan, fyc.
No.
Distances.
in miles.
Rbmaeks.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
1
At 3 miles pass hamlet Tazakand, 5 houses, and
enter defile enclosed by low hills of easy slope.
Thence on same bearing, over open downs culti
vated in parts, to Chalkamar, 40 houses, near
banks of small stream, flowing west-south-west
towards the Jaghatu river and the lake, 9J miles.
Other villages, gardens and cultivation visible
lower down stream.
Cross stream and bend towards high ridge skirting
valley on north.
At 11J miles cross low spur and descend into
valley of Jaghatu river, enclosed by high ridges
and under 1 mile in width.
Thence bend up valley, skirting hills to left
closely.
At 12 miles pass hamlet Fara, 10 houses, and 14 J
miles Najar, 50 houses.
At 14J miles cross wide gravelly bed of torrent
draining lateral valley on left, and at 15 miles
reach Kashawar, large village, 100 houses, with
ruined mud fort on mound. Road throughout
good and practicable for wheels. Heights com
manding it, everywhere of easy slopes and
accessible to infantry or light guns.
Four hours.
m
1
S ain K ala
14|
121
From Lailan there are two roads up valley of the
Jaghatu, one clinging closely to hillskirt to left
of valley, usually taken by caravans in winter or
wet weather, the other more direct, taking nearly
centre of valley. The two join some miles
higher up.
Following direct road by good but devious path, at
2 miles pass through hamlet Karajai, and at 2|
miles pass Azizkandi, J mile left.
At 3f miles reach small mound of volcanic rocks, at
base of which lies hamlet Akhchala.
Thence on to hamlet Halakan, 10 houses,
miles.
At 7 miles pass hamlet Yungar y 8 houses, and
at 8J miles reach hamlet Chichaktu, 10 houses,
with new well-built mud fort having four solid
flanking towers and curtain walls of about 150
yards. A side-road to Khatunabad and Bibi-
kandi, large villages of Afshar district, turns off
to right front. Large village Kaka-tapa, 1 mile
left.
At 9 miles caravan road comes in left rear.
Thence skirting low undulations on left hand at
11| miles reach strong village of Muhammadjik,
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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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