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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [261r] (526/739)
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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463
No. 211— eonid.
Tabriz to Kaumanshah, vid Binab, Lailan, fyc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Remarks.
Interme
diate.
Total.
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it is by no means a serious obstacle ; guns might
cross it in its present state, and a Utile labour
would render it easilv practicable. At the foot
of the pass lies the little valley of Dinawar, and
opposite to it frowns a precipitous, impracticable-
looking range of mountains, which seems to
fairly bar all further progress to the south, but
through the heart of which is poured, neverthe
less, the whole drainage of many hundred square
miles of country, and lies the best road into the
plain of Karmanshah. The plain of Dinawar,
draining from the south and west, sends two
considerable streams to the foot of the imposing
wall of rock, where joining they find exit through
the Tang or defile of Dinawar, a cleft in a great
mass of mountains. Winding for 7 miles be
tween towering precipices, the open valley of
Chamchamar is reached. Across the mouth of
the valley runs the high read from Tehran and
the telegraph line. The defile of Dinawar,
though affording an excellent passage through
a very impracticable mass of mountains, would be
difficult to traverse in the face of any deter
mined opposition; its flanks for many miles being
inacc.'ssible, and when accessible so flanked
by steep scarps as to be nearly impracticable to
direct assault. A detour of about 20 to 30 miles
from Dinawar, east over a low pass, crossed with
ease by horsemen and laden camels to Shana, a
station on the high-road, turns the defile.
The province of Karmanshah may be termed the
granary of Persia, and, except in seasons of
extreme scarcity, the country might be relied on,
to supply a very large force in all that would be
necessary, to enable it ta traverse the barren
tracts beyond. Mules, camels, and horses are
owned and bred in large numbers, and corn and
forage are plentiful.
Notes on the topography and resources of the dis-
tricts through which the caravan route from
Tabriz to Karmanshah lies.
On the map of Persia, issued from the Survoyor-
(reneral's Office in India, Karmanshah lies about
300 miles south of Tabriz, both fixed points. The
caravan route follows a somewhat longer line,
which is deflected to the west by a mass of moun
tains lying south-east of Tabriz, known as the
Kuh-i-Sahend, from a prominent peak, and again
to the east by the Jaghatu river, the upper
course of which it follows as the easiest line.
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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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