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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [264v] (533/739)
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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470
No. 211— contd.
T abriz to K armanshah, via Bin ah, Lailan, fyc.
No.
of
etage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
E bmabki.
Interme
diute.
Total.
!
Fuel is more scarce perhaps than elsewhere on the-
route, the people depending on dried camel-thorn
and small stores of the " Tapala " before men^
tioned. Beasts of bnrden of all descriptions are
almost unprocurable, and the fact is remarkable,
for the country seems peculiarly fitted fo^ rearing
eamels.
There are no nomads save a few tents of Shah's
J^evend, and few mules or borses are bred in the
villages. In tbe district of Khamsa, lower-
down the course of Kizil Uzan, camels are to be
found in considerable numbers, there being a
large and constant export of grain thence..
From Khasiabad to Sar Agatch on the borders
of the province of Karmanshah a portion of Kur--
distan known as the Mehal-i-Ishfandabad is
traversed.
The distance, 23 miles is over an undulating and
very practicable country. A large tributary of
the Kizil Uzan, known as the Ketchigird or
Talsvar Kud, is crossed, but, though unbridged,
it is said to oifer no obstacle save at times of
high flood.
There are but a few small villages along the route,,
and the surface of tbe country is destitute of
trees, and has but scanty vegetation. The com
plete absence of wood in these tracts and in the
neighbouring mountains is evidenced by the-
appearance of the villages, the houses of whicb
are all dome-roofed, resembling at a distance
clusters of beehives.
The " mahal," or district, numbers 60 villages, of'
which three only—Sarishabad, Kurba, on the.
high road, and Lailan—have ov^er 100 houses.
The average of the whole is, from 20 to 30 houses.
A good deal of grain is exported thence to Hama-
dan, local prices being somewhat higher than at
Be jar, but less than half the current rate at,
Hamadan, distant only two days' journey.
Carriage is, as elsewhere on the route,scarce ; mules
may be procured in the villages, but not in large-
numbers.
Four miles beyond Sara Agatch is a high rocky
range which divides the drainage basins of the
Kizil Uzan and Tigris,, and forms also the bound-,
ary lines of the province of Karmanshah. The
crest of this ridge is crossed by the route at a low
point known as the Gardan-i-Girdakanu, which
is marked from a distance of many miles, by the
KuhPanja, a precipitous three-peaked elevation
in the range.
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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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