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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [272r] (548/739)
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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485
No. 216.
T abuiz to UsHNU ; vid Sardarud and Binab.
Authority — R awltnson.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Saedabud
Gugan
Shishawan
D istances
in milks.
Interme
diate.
22
24
Total.
29
53
Remaeks,
From Tabriz 7 miles to village of Sardarud in a
general direction of S. 72 W.
At 2 miles pass to left little village of Lala, con
taining a summer-bonse and garden: road to
Sardarud skirts to left the low hills which form
the southern boundary of the great Tabriz plain,
and upon right is seen an immense level flat
stretching away to the margin of the salt lake
further than the eye can trace its features.
Sardarud is a flourishing place, on small stream
which flows from Sahand, and gives its name to
the village and district. The gardens and or
chards which surround it along the foot of the
hills are of great extent.
From Sardarud a stage of 22 miles to the village
of Gugan. Road across plain for 12 miles in a
general direction south-west to village of llkhiji,
the low hills to the left running along at an
average distance of about 1 mile, and the
great plain, as before, to the right stretching
down to the shores of the lake. Along this tract
the plain is cultivated throughout, and many
villages are seen scattered about.
At 1 mile from this place road leads round a long
point of the low hills called by the Tabrizis
Linzi Burni, and then stretches across a flat open
(meadow) in a direction of S. 20 W. for
9 miles to village of Gugan. At this point of the
hill the road divides, one track running off to
left, and along foot of hills to Dehkargan, the
capital of the district, and the other conducting
direct to Gugan,
At 1 mile road enters chain of low, barren hills, and
at 8 miles further rejoins high road, which turns
off to left, as already mentioned, at Linzi Burni,
and conducts through Dehkargan. From hence
6 miles among the hills lead to the marble pits :
whence road strikes across the little plain due
south for 2 miles, leaving village of Sheranim to
left, and that of Khanigah to right; and then
again winds among low hills for 8 miles, till it
descends into the spacious plain, which extends
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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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