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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [261v] (527/739)
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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464
No. 211— contcL
Tabriz to Karma^sfiah, vid Binah, Lallan, fyc.
No.
€tagc.
Names of stages.
Distahces
in" miles.
Remarks,
[nterme-
diate.
Total.
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Tabriz to Gengan. —Strikingr soutli-west from
Tabriz, tbis route skirts the western spurs of
Sahaud as far as the town of Gengan, 34| miles.
To the right of the road extends a level plain
stretching to the foot of a high range known as
the Kuh Geunoy, distant 25 to 30 miles, and to
the shore of lake Urnmia, Gengan lying about
miles from the lake shore.
There are few villages within the mountainous tract
dominated by the Sahand peak, and the pasturage
is poor. The plain is fertile, but somewhat
scantily watered, the small streams following
from !?a,hand. being almost entirely consumed
in the irrigation of vineyards and orchards. The
large villages, Khusrushah (1,000 houses)^ Ilkhiji
(300 houses), Mamaghan (500 houses), Dakhara-
gan (800 houses), and Gengan (1,000 houses),
having in all 3,600 houses, representing a popu
lation of 18,000, do not grow corn sufficient for
their own consumption.
This apparently has long been the condition of agri
culture in the district, but of late years a large
demand for dried fruits for foreign export has
stimulated the production of fruit and rendered
the villagers even more than formerly dependent
on external supplies of grain.
Probably not more than an average of a month s
supply per family would be found in the villages
at any time of the year, and in summer much less.
This also would be available only at a very high
price or by prompt requisition.
Forage would be even more difficult to procure on
the spot in large quantities. As in other parts
of Persia, little, save chopped straw, is used. In
autumn and early winter there would be a consi
derable quantity found stored in the villages
the winter supply of owners of cattle at other
times very little. In spring and early summer
unlimited pasturage would be found along the
edge of the lake basin.
Firewood may be procured in large quantities from
the gardens and plantations.
Carriage is almost unprocurable, save to very small
extent-there being but few nomads, and the
export trade being carried on mostly by carriers
from Tabriz.
Water is everywhere procurable, either in the small
streams flowing from Sahand, or by digging at
3k depth of 10 to 15 feet. It is reputed of good
quality.
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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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