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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [262v] (529/739)
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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466
No. 211— contd*
T abriz to K armanshah, via Bin ah, Lallan, fye.
No.
of
stage.
Names of -stages.
Distances
int miles.
Eemabks.
Interme
diate.
Total.
-
•
The better class of houses—a large proportion—nre
two-storeyed, with upper windows looking on to
the lane. The walls of all are built entirely of
mud. which becomes nearly as hard as stone.
With a v double storey, the elevation is about 20
feet, the lower walls three feet thick, upper two
feet, the roof flat, with six beams of poplar vary
ing in length from ten to fifteen feet covered
with a thin layer of mud. A parapet wall of mud
bullet-proof, runs round each roof. Such build
ings would afford no protection against shot, but
would be difficult to fire, and little or no wood
being exposed, fire would rot spread rapidly.
Houses, or more properly shops, in the bazaar— 4
the principal street of the village—are built on a
different plan, that is, covering much less ground,
but of the same materials. The vineyards or
orchards—in local parlance always gardens—ex
tend for more than a mile around the larger vil
lages, being thickest above and below on the line
of irrigation.
They cover from two to about ten acres of ground,
are thinly planted, and enclosed by solid mud
walls of twelve to fifteen feet high, with a single
small gate. Narrow lanes and watercourses wind
through and about them, affording a very in
different means of communication. Thcugh the
height of the garden walls, and the thinness of
the cover within them detract from their defen
sive value, they might, with some little labour,
be converted into an excellent screen, very difficult
to penetrate in the face of even undisciplined op
position.
In respect to forage, the tract about Binab and
between that town and Maragha is better suppli
ed than the last, but the pastures are of less extent.
Fuel is plentiful, and water is easily procured.
Carriage in any quantity is not to be found. There
are no large droves of camels, and but few mules.
Near to Binab the road traverses a mud" flat—a
depression in the plain, some two miles in width—
that would, form a serious obstacle to the passage
of guns or waggons. A causeway has been raised
across it, which is in process of being, roughly
paved, not by the local authorities or even by the
villagers, but by the labour of an aged mendicant,
possessing a single donkey to transport himself
and his paving stones !
The morass—a term the flat is said fully to deserve
in winter—may be turned by a long detour over
a rough hillskirt.
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:58r, 59r:232r, 232r:233r, 234r:361v, back-i, 363r:363v, 365r:369v
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