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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [268v] (541/739)
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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478
No. 212—
T abriz to R asht, vid Ala J star a.
D istances
No.
in miles.
of
Namea of stages.
stage.
Interme
Total.
diate.
R emarks.
13 A staei
28
206
the plain was well cultivated ; on the other side
it appeared more sandy and barren, but numerous
nocks or sheep and cattle were grazing on the
scanty herbage, 4 miles farther;ford the Karasu
which divides Ardabil from Talish. It was rather
swollen by the late rains, but the depth was not
more than 83 in the middle, and the width
about 16 yards. Then passed the villages of
Xendi and SnlaK, and turning north over a low
hill, approached Namin, about 7 miles distant
trom Ardabil. Namin is a very pretty village
situated in a small valley at the foot of the
mountains which divide the upper country from
the low lands of Talish (Holmes),
Todd passed two villages, which he calls Namin
and Namm north. The former 15 miles from
Ardabil on the right bank of the Karasu, which
is there forded, and which forms the boundary
between Ardabil and Valkhi, but contains very
little water, except in spring, when it is a con-
siderable stream. Namin north is the residence
of MirKazim Khan chief of Velki, Astara and
Ujarud and lies north 45° east 5 miles of Namin.
it is situated in a ravine descending from the
mountains to the north-east. These mountains
aie called Shindan, are distant about 4 miles, and
reach, according to Colonel Monteith, a height of
7 ' ( ?9V abo ™ the sea. Between Now-
ahdeh and Isamm, four villages on the right and
nght front, the road turns to the west. From
tne map 15 miles appears correct.
The great discrepancy in the distances given by the
two travellers may be explained by the custom
prevailing in son.e parts of the east of calling the
various groups of dwelling, situated in the same
rayon by the same name.
On quitting Namin, 1 mile to the south-east is
the village of Daderan, whence the road turns
east by north, leaving the Khan Agha on the
right, and, crossing the brow of a hill sprinkled
with underwood passes within about half a mile
ot Mount Shindan, a perpendicular rock, which
marks the south-west point of Russian Talish.
i ^rom this point the road descends through thick
wood, scarcely passable at this season from mud
and melting snow. Leaving the village of Vena-
bm on the brow of a hill, a i of a mile on the
right, 7 ,miles beyond is the hamlet of Haii Amir
An abrupt descent through thick underwood, till
we reach the stream of Kaia Khushi, a feeder 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.
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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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