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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [259v] (523/739)
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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460
No, 211—contd.
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falls in the valley itself. The higli plateaux about
Mahi Bulak are covered with snow for two or three'
months, and impassable often for several days.
Caravans pass over the snow when hardened, the
gradients, being everywhere, easy. The villages of
the Afshar district are small, for the most part
mere hamlets. They number about 100 in all,
with an average of 20 houses, giving a popula
tion of 10,000 souls. There are also abtmfc 20O
tents of nomads. The villagers are Kurds and
Turks with a.few Afshars, to which tribe also
the Khan belongs. Grain is X -)roduced in sufficient
quantity to supply the wants of the district, but
there is little surplus. Forage and fuel would
be found in the villages in considerable quantities
and water is of course everywhere abundant.
Carriage is not procurable. Camels are neither
kept nor reared, though the country seems in
every way fitted for them, and there are but few
mules.
From Kizil Bulak to Khusharabad, a distance of
60 miles, the route lies through the district of
Gerus. The small stream, on which Kizil Bulak
stands, winds through a broken tract of hills of
easy outline and destitute of vegetation. As far as
Khushmakam, 9 miles, the road follows the
windings of the stream. At this point the vallej
opens out into the valley of the Kizil Uzan, tree
less and seemingly barren, but having a good
soil, yielding fine crops even on large tracts not
irrigated. Crossing this plain, a rough tract of
mountain, known as the xik Dagh,is traversed.
The worst portion of it, that beyond Kara Bulak,
may be turned by aline which has been followed
by Persian guns, striking off from Kara Bulak
eastward to the village of Kuska Gul, 4 miles dis
tant, thence down an easy slope to the Kizil Uzan,
and up its open level bed till the caravan road is
rejoined near the bridge of Salamatabad, a detour
of 10 to 12 miles at most. The passes of Nasir-
abad and Salamatabad offer, however, no serious
obstacles to the passage of a lightly equipped force,
or to the construction of a permanent military road.
The total ascents and descents up to Kara Bulak
are 625 feet and 200 feet, respectively, and from
Kara Bulak to the level of the Kizil Uzan is a
fall of 900 feet. The first portion is quite prac
ticable for the passage of guns, and the second
might be made so with some little labour. The
Kizil ITzan is crossed by a sound stone bridge.
The bed of the stream between flood-marks at a
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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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