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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [272v] (549/739)
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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No. 216— concld.
Tabriz to Ushnu, via Sardarnd and Bin ah.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Binab
D istances
li* miles,
Inter
mediate.
Total.
13
5 C HILIK
Alibegli
20
66
86
22 108
USHNU
25
133
Ebmabks.
round the south-eastern angle of the lake. Here
the road again divides the great caravan route
clinging to the hills upon left, and the other road
striking down into the plain to village of Shis-
hawan, distant from this point about 4 miles, in
direction of S. 16 E.
13 miles to Binab in a direction of S. 26 E.r
village of A jab" Shehr is distant scarcely half a
mile from Shishawan; and Khanian, which is
the usual halting-place for kafilas, is again
about miles beyond. Leaving these places ta
the left at 2 miles, crossed stream of Dezziya-
Rnd ; this riveri rises high up among the ravines
of Sahand, and at the distance of 2 farsakhs,
before it debouches into the plain, there is a
ruined castle named Tash-Kala.
Beyond gardens of Binab, crossed Sufi Chai bv
good bridge; thence over cultivated tract for 2
miles ; reached point of hill which forms nor
thern boundary of Miandab plain ; hence quitted
high road and struck off by by-path in direction
south-west by south to Chilik ; at 5 miles, further
crossed the Jaghatu, small stream; beyond this,
at 3 miles, reached small village of Kemchik at 8
miles from which, reached banks of the Tatau
and crossed by shallow ford to Chilik village.
10 miles, across Mian dab plain in direction of
S. 63 W., for greater part through dense"
mass of reeds and grass: in spring this is an
impassable morass, fed by the Sujbulak river.
Entered low hills which reach down nearly to the
lake : fairly fertile surroundings : after 4 miles
among hills emerged into plain of Sulduz ; thence
turned up west by north through rich and highly
cultivated country to large village of Alibegli up
the river Gadar.
10 miles along foot of hills bounding Sulduz plain
to the southward.: then ascended brow of little
prong forming its western limit and overlooking
fertile district of Ushnu bounded on west by the
Kurdistan mountains. Ushnu is a small town
among gardens. Connects with Section H.
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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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