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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [256r] (516/739)
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. 211— contd.
Tabriz to Karmanshah, via JSinab, Lallan, fyc.
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stage.
Names of stages.
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of 100 houses, commanded by strong square fort
with maspnrj flanking towers on natural mound,
60 to 70' high. Low heights command fort at
distance of 300 to 500 yards.
At 12| miles road contracted by low undulations
and river; detour to left easily made.
Thence to Sain Kala, 141 miles, village of 100
houses.
Fort of Sain Kala, commanding village, stands on
high natural mound, and is strongly built, but
without water.
Road throughout good and practicable for wheels.
Four and a half hours.
From Sain Kala, bear nearly due south to foot of
low hills enclosing valley to left.
At If miles enter hilly tract and bear away from
the Jaghatu, which also bends west towards
Sakiz, village and district of Kurdistan, distance
30 miles.
At 6-| miles, commence ascent, passing over spurs
of Marmar Dagh, considerable mountain east of
Sain Kala.
At 6 miles reach hamlet Khoja Ali, 400' above
the Jaghatu ; ascent easy, road good, command
ed by accessible heights of 200 to SOu'.
Thence continue to ascend over ridge and hollow
to Kizilkabar, 40 houses, 9f miles, about 900
above the Jaghatu. Road good, but winding and
broken by steep pitches; commanded to left
hand by heights of 400 to 1,000'. Eight, open
plateau,
Eoad turns off left to Turki Wairan, lar^e villa o-e.
distant 2 miles.
From Kizilkabar descend over sharp undulations
half mile to Karachai, small stream flowing north
west to join the Jaghatu.
Thence follow up left bank of stream through
narrow defile; road in parts very narrow, but
easily improvable ; heights on either hand' pre
cipitous and inaccessible, 600 to 800'.
At 13J miles cross stream by sound masonry bridge
15' wide, and^ bend south-west up narrow glen
to village Sanjud, 30 houses.
Road narrow and tortuous, but easily improv
able ; heights on either hand receding easily and
accessible.
Five and a half hours.
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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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