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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎267v] (539/739)

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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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476
No. 212— con Id.
T abriz to R asht, via Ahar, Ardahil and Jsfara.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istawcbs
in miles.

Intermc
diate.
Total.
R emarks.

on a small eminence, one side of which forms a
precipice overhanging the river and contains
about 30 houses.
5
SUJ BtJlAK
14
76
a small village to the left of the road, situated
on the pinnacle of an isolated hill, at the foot
of which flows the Ahar stream. It is surround
ed by a wall, and contains about 20 poor huts.
Soon after passing Kishlak, the road again cross
es to left bank. At this point the valley becomes
narrow, varying from 100 to 300 yards. The
hills which have hitherto presented smooth and
rounded summits now exhibit a more rugged
outline. The^ road winds round their sTdes r
which, sometimes nearly meeting at the base,
leave only a narrow chasm for the stream, here
so confined as to become a foaming torrent.
C
Yanoija
9
85
South 80 east. For the first 4 miles, the road is
uneven and stony, over hills on the right bank of
the^ stream. At 4 miles, the road quits the river,
which flows to the north-east to join the Karasu.
At 7 miles pass the village of Mizar, containing
about 20 houses, situated on the spur of a hill to
the right. After leaving the river, the road leads
over undulating ground sloping to the north, and
richly cultivated with wheat aud rice (Todd).
Holmes, who halted at Mizam, which is evidently
the Miz^r of Todd, appears to have travelled by
the left bank of the Ahar as far as the villages
of Ghaindengi and Kalabashi. He there crossed
the river, and, after continuing a few miles along
its right bank, came, in about 2 miles over un
dulating ground covered with dwarf oaks and
shrubs, to Mizam.
7
Nasbxtbad
13
98
North 75° east. A small village to the right and
another half a mile on the left. Half a mile be
yond is the small village of Hawashi on the
right, and half a mile further, the village of Khan-,
chel. Rich cultivation on both sides of the road,
Nashrubad is a considerable village, situated on
both sides of a deep ravine, running from the
hills to the right, in the direction of the Ahar
river.
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20
118
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At 2 miles the large village of Mirkand, half a mile
on the right, and the small village of Zerdan
Zamin, at the same distance on the left. The
village of Ush Tapa, about a mile to the north
of Karaman, and 1 mile beyond the village of

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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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