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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [259r] (522/739)
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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459
No. 211— contd.
T abriz to K armanshah, via Binab, Lailan, fye.
No.
of
stage.
»
Names of stages.
D istances
in milks.
B bhaaes.
Interme
diate.
Total.
*
18
K abmanshah...
20
342^
At 5| miles pass Chashma Surkhab, 5 houses, left.
At 8^ miles pass Mazarian, 15 houses, on road,
and Azan Uzan, 20 houses, 1 mile left. Defile
opens into cultivated valley, 1J miles left.
At 10 miles pass Barnatch, 40 houses, ^ mile right,
with strong new fort on mound, having double
curtain wall of mud, about 150 yards and 80
yards in length, and masonry flanking towers,
commanded by hill slope at short distance.
At 12 miles Marankuh, 30 houses, half a mile left.
At 12^ miles pass Bakarabad, \ mile left, Najuvi-
ran, 20 houses, 1J miles right.
At 13 miles pass Kashan + u, 50 houses, J mile left,
and 14f miles cross smill stream, unfordable,
with muddy bottom, by small stone bridge, three
arches, 15' wide.
At 14| miles pass Haidarabad, 10 houses, ha^f a mile
left; and at 15f miles, Sungarabad^ 20 houses,
half a mile left.
At 17| miles pass mound Sangar-i-Nadiri, and
strike into high road and telegraph line from.
Tehran to .Karmanshah. Thence to Besitun, 1
mile.
Road throughout good; where narrow, easily im^
provable.
Distance thence to Karmanshah about 20 miFes.
The following general description of the little known country between
Lailan and Sangar may enable one the better to appreciate the military features
of the above route :—
The first 30 rDiIes is tolerably level and' the road'
gocd ; but after leaving Sain Ka'a and the valley
of the Jagbatu, there is a stretch of 35 miles of
rough country as far as the village of Genja
Kishlak, with one narrow defile along the
bank of Xaurachai, a tributary of the Jaghatu.
The total ascents amount to 3,900' and descents
to 2,700'. From Genja Kishlah an open valley
is followed up to the
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
line. Persian
troops with guns have several times passed along
the route, making good stages. The hills are low
and of easy slopes, destitute of vegetation, save a
scanty herbage. The valleys open, abundantly
watered, fertile, and well cultivated. In winter
and spring, the valley of the Jaghatu is ex
tensively inundated; communioation is carried on,
between the villages on either bank, by boats.
At such times the road on the hillskirt becomes
difficult, but never impassable. But little snow
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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).
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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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