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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [265v] (535/739)
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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472
No, 211 — con tel.
Tabriz to Karmanshah, via Binah, Laitan, Sfc\
D istances
in" miles.
Ko.
of
Names of stages.
K emab^s,
stage.
Interme
Total.
diate.
The plain of Dinawar draining from the south and
t , west sends two con-
Defile of Dmawair. > » , i
giderable 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
formed by some gigantic effort of nature^ probab
ly subsequent to the formation of the mountains
themselves.
From a distance the indentations of the two flanks
of the defile are seen to correspond exactly— 4
each salient being opposed by a re-entering angle
of equal depth—on the hit hand side the strata are
inclined at a sharp angle, appearing to have fallen
away from the opposite mass by the subsidence
of the earth's crust beneath.
Wmding for 7 miles between towering preci
pices the open valley of Chamchamar is reached.
Across the mouth of the valley runs the high
road from Tehran and the telegraph line. The
Dinawar stream joined by the Gamas-ali, and
further on by the Kara Su from Karmanshah,
flows south into a mountain defile, a repetition
on a smaller scale of the grand chasm it has
just cleared.
The defile of Dinawar, though affording an excel
lent passage through a very impracticable mass of
mountains, would be difficult to traverse in the
face of any determined opposition ; its flanks for
many miles being inaccessible, and when accessible
so flanked by steep scarps as to be nearly im
practicable to direct assault.
A detour of about 20 to 30 miles from Dinawar
east over a low pass, crossed with ease by horse
men and laden camels, to Sena, a station on
the high road, turns the defile.
The district of Sanghur, which commences at Gir-
dakanu, consists of two valleys, that of the
Gaowi Rud, undulating and bare, showing a few
villages and large stretches of excellent corn land;
and that of the fehaja Rud—in which lies the
town of Sanghur-—level, well-watered and covered
with villages, gardens and plantations.
There are said to be in all, including hamlets in
the mountains, 153 villages, of which 20 have 100
houses and upwards. The average of the whole
is about 30 houses. ^ The people raise and export
considerable quantities of grain chiefly to Hama-
dan and the barren tracts beyond.
The flourishing agricultural town of Sanghur ex
tends its gardens and vineyards across to the
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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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