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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [257v] (519/739)
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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466
No. %\\-~~contd.
T abuiz to K armanshah^ via Bindb, Lailan, tyc.
D istances.
No.
in milks.
of
Stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total,
E ejiaeks.
Thence descend 2 miles to Kizil Uzan. Total
descent 875'. Road narrow and tortuous.
Rock on surface, limestone. Considerable labour
necessary to render pass practicable for guns.
Cross stream by strong stone bridge of eio-ht
arches, 120 paces in length, 6 paces in breadth.
Stream unfordable for three months in sprinp-
only. Left bank high and precipitous; right
open.
At half a mile left, village and new mud fort of Sala-
matabad, commanded by spurs of range in rear.
Thence following drainage line by narrow devious
path, easily improvable, at 7J miles reach crest of
wide expanse of open plateau : total ascent 600'.
Thence over good road, 11 miles to hamlet Ali
Badr, 15 houses.
Thence still ascending over open plateau, at 13|
miles enter defile commanded at some distance by
isolated precipitous hills.
At 14J miles pass village of Halwai, 30 houses, and
at 15J miles, Bijar.
Town of 1,000 houses open and lying in hollow,
commanded on three sides by hill slopes.
Road from Kizil Uzan practicable for guns ; total
ascent 1,500'.
13 K hosrabad
24
238^
Direct caravan rou^e from Bijar to ICarmanshah
leaves town south, 8° west, and winds through
defile enclosed by low, rugged, limestone hills.
At f mile enter defile known as the Tang-i-Kalijn,
and proceed over rough, narrow and tortuous path
to crest of pass known as Gardan-i- Alakabud, 1|-
miles. Ascent 550' enclosing heights 100 to
200', steep and rocky, but accessible.
Thence sharp descent of 50' to plain.
At 3f miles reach village Alakabud, 60 houses,
and descend easy open ridge flanked by deep
ravines.
At 7i miles reach village and mud fort Chahel
Amiran, 30 houses. Road narrow but easily im
provable, following narrow glen enclosed by
slopes under 50',
At 10 miles reach Turmuras Rud, brook draining
to Kizil Uzan. Road good and open: total descent
800'.
Crossing brook ascend over gently nndulating
country, and, at 12J miles, reach elevated plateau
of volcanic rock with steep rocky scarps ; total
descent 300'. Road good.
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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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