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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [273r] (550/739)
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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487
No. 217.
T ehran to A strabad, vii Amul, Barfarmh, Sari and Ashraf.
Authority —N a pi e R ; H olmes ; O useley.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Distakcbs
in miles,
Bemiezs,
Interme
diate.
Total.
'
1 — —
Aa
171
41
at bridge, and thence E. through Arash and
Ushgul. Leaving last village, follow track lead
ing Ji,. S. E., and bending S. to gap in range of
low hiils, bounding plain on right band. Pass
through narrow gorge, and emerge on plain of
Dar-Dasht, opening on Tehran at hamlet Narmak
(9 miles). Thence due E., 7 miles, across un
dulating, gravelly plain to Sukisa (16 miles),
hamlet with water ; passing at 1| miles gardens
and enclosure of Mujidabad, and crossing at 5
miles road from Tehran to Aftcha Pass, Lar and
Sari. At Sukisa strike into road from
Tehran (distant 12 miles). Beyond hamlet direct
road to Jajirud ford leads due E., up small
streams, 3 miles to river. Eoad to bridge turns
N. E. over low range. At 4| miles reach crest,
750', easy ascent low heights of gravel and allu
vium on either hand ; descend to bridge, steep
2 miles, 800'. Jajirud stream (22| miles),
running through narrow valley with strips of culti-
vation, of few yards square; stream fordable; bridge
of four arches and causeway in good repair ; left
bank easy ; hill slightly receding right hills
commanding ; turn up stream few hundred yards ;
then follow lateral glen with small stream du©
E. for 1 mile to hamlet Kamar.
From Kamar proceed up stream and due E. At half
a mile hills recede, falling away right (S.). At
4 miles gain crest of ridge ; gentle ascent over
long undulations ; road open ; soil alluvium and
gravel ; rough grass abundant. Descend slight
ly, and pass on E. for 6 miles over undulating
broken plateau—right, main ridge; left, low hills
skirting plateau ; below which runs stream from
Damavand valley—beyond barren range Jfara-
gatch hills ; behind which lies the caravan road.
Road good ; soil alluvium with gravel. At 5J
miles pass small mud sarai of Awanjalah—left,
gardens, and a few fields off right. At 8 miles'
deep ravine with small stream, snow water, and
few acres barley and wheat. At Il| miles des
cend for half a mile to hamlet and stream of Bama-
han (12 miles). Villages up and down valley.
Good strip of cultivation skirting stream, which
is never dry in ordinary years.
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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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