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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [269r] (542/739)
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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479
No. 2^6— contd.
T abriz to R asht, via Ahar, Ardahil and Astara.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
14
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Hevie
15
Kaeghan-bud...
20
226
23
249
EaMAEKS.
the Astara river, which we ford and continue
along its left bank over the projecting offsets of
thickly wooded hills. The Kala Kushi is said to
mark the frontier from its source near the
mountain of Shindau to the point where it joins
the Astara river, which thence becomps the
boundary between Russia and Persia to its em
bouchure in the Caspian. At 28 miles, havino-
crossed and re-crossed the river Astara eight times
reach the village of Astara, seated on each side
of the stream, at a ^ of a mile from its outlet into
the Caspian. MacGregor's total distance to Astara
is 214 miles.
Fine hard level road along the sea-beach, whose
sands vary from 15 to 200 yards in breadth A
range of hills 3 or 4 miles to the right, covered
with a dense forest, which stretches down to the
1 At half a mile cross the embouchure
ot the Khwaja Kern stream, which is said to con
tain ^ a considerable volume of water, after the
melting of the snow. In summer the water is up
to a horse's girth. At 7i miles forded the stream
of i3uz Kusham, or Khan Rud, a village of the
same name, said to be about 2 miles up the
stream. Very little water in summer. At 9
miles cross the stream of Lavandavil; at 10
miles that _ of (Jhilivand; at 16 milea
that ot Limir, which separates Astara from
Karghan-rud j at 18 miles that of Chubar AH
these are dangerous, owing to quicksands, and
require experienced guides. They aliform sand
banks at their mouths. Hevir is a small village,
halt a mile from the sea, on the banks of a stream •
the wood partially cleared ; the houses scattered
m groups, surrounded by rice-fields. Holmes
makes, the distance 28 miles. Colonel Monteitb
says the Hevir stream will admit a vessel of
50 tons. Cf. Koute No.
Ford the river and continue over road and through
scenery similar to previous march. Ford rivers
Shalawan and Khat-Mesonrah (Khatwa Saral)
at 6 miles; also stream Bissar-Chai andKarghan-
rud. The Karghan-rud is by far the largest
stream yet crossed ; and a wide, stony bed some
300 yards, strewed with rocks and the trunks of
laige tiees shows that it must be a tremendous
torrent in the spring. At this time, the water
running m several small rills over a nearly drv
bed. Passed at 11 miles a Russian fishing station
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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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