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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [270v] (545/739)
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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m
No. 214.
Tabriz Sena,
Authority —Morier; Rich.
Ko.
Distances
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate
Total.
bemabss.
1
Saedaeud
6|
64
S.W. The road goes over a plnin for 5 miles
with a range of low hills on left.
2
Khoseu Shah
11
m
S.S.W. The road skirts the base of the spurs
of Mount Sband. At 8 miles pass two villages
on the left.
3
Dehkaegan ...
18
35^
S. At If miles pass a small village on right.
At 4 miles pass village of Elkhiji. At 12 miles
large village on the left. The road lies about
1 mile from some low hills.
4
Shibamin
12
474
S. The road for 64 miles goes over a plain with
hi Us on both sides; then for 2 miles through
ravines with defiles on both sides; then for 1 mile
through a plain ; about 1^ miles pass the village
of Humna.
6
Chawan m .
104
58
S. The road goes over a most barren tract of
brown mountains for 14 miles through a plain
with hills on both sides. Then for 83 miles road
is very uneven with low hills, half a mile on left,
and lake, 2 miles on pght.
6
Aku ».
12
70
E.
7
Maeagha
| 351
851
A t 3 miles pass large village of Khnramzard.
i ne road is over a very uneven country, winding
through small hills. There is abundance of good
water here, a ad supplies are procurable.
8
GtALANDI
14
991
The road goes for miles in the bed of the river
Maragha, then enters an open plain. At 6 miles
the lake of Urumiahis7 to 8 miles distant. At 11
miles the road winds at the foot of small hills
with high mountains 1 mile on left.
9
Baei
1
18|
118
j
The road goes for 3| miles over a plain, when
pass village of Jaodur (?) on the right; it then
goes over another plain with low hills on the
lett, and extensive open plain on the right. At
miles pass village of Lailan on the right. At
l imiles road goes over a low range of hills, hav
ing crossed the drj bed of a river; then over a
level plain with hills on the left about 2 miles
distant and small plain on the right.
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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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