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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎258v] (521/739)

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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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No. 211— contd,
Tabriz to Karmanshah, via Binab, Lallan^ fyc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles,
Interme
diate.
Total.
Rkmabks.
15
17
Tapa kulicha
Besitun
181
304
Thence by good road skirting'low hills, flanked ri^ht
by deep ravine, at about half a mile, and pars
ing hamlet Asiab, 15 houses ; Guryakotlop, 10
h<»uses ; Baghla Shah, 15 houses, off right to the
Gaowi Rud, 21J miles. Descent 350'; stream
small, fordable, save in flood ; hot torn' sound •
banks low and open to half a mile.
Thence ascend 425' to pass at 236 miles.
Ascent easy. Road good, commanded by acces
sible slopes o£ 500 to 100'. Lofty tabular
mountain of limestone, Mahinkuh, 1 mile left.
Thence long steady descent to valley of Sancrhur •
passing at 25 miles hamlet Haiwatula, 20
houses, at 28 miles reaching foot of descent, 700'
below pass, and at 29^ miles town of Sangar.
Road good and practicable for guns; where
narrow, easily improvable. Sanghur, 2,000 houses,
open town, in well-cultivated valley showing
many villages.
Leave Sanghur south-south-west. At 1| miles,
over level^ cultivated plain, cross Shaju Rud
brook flowing west, and at 3 miles touch skirt of
lofty precipitous mountain known as Dalakhana.
Thence over easy undulations, by a stonj and devi-
ous track, 9^ miles, to foot of pass known as the
Gardan-i-Mulawas. Ascent of pass about 1 mile,
300'. Path obstructed by boulders, tortuous
and narrow, but with practicable gradients and
easily improvable.
From crest of pass, descend 900' passing at
12J miles Jabarabad, 30 houses, and reaching
foot at 13f miles. Eoad narrow with some
steep pitches, but easily improvable. From
foot of pass, traverse open plain of JUinawar to
Tapa Kulicha.
Bear south-south-west across plain.
At 1 mile cross small stream Jan-Nisar by stone
bridge, three arches, 17' wide, and enter defile
Tan-i-Dinawar, enclosed by inaccessible cliffs,
800 to 1,000' in length.
Follow stream formed by junction of Kangarshah
stream with Jan Nisar on narrow tortuous path
flanked left by stream and dense thickets of wil
low, right by cliffs, defile to half mile wide.
Path bad, but easily improvable.
At 3 miles, following windings of defile, pass
hamlet of Husenabad : defile opening.

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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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