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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [274r] (552/739)
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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489
62
No. QYl^-^coutd*
Tehran to Astrab ^ d , via Amul, Barfarush, Sari and As/iraf.
Distances
ik miles.
No.
of
Btage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Bemabss,
•
Baijan
15
78
Paeusf
231
lOli
Larijan from the side of Ask in this directjon ;
but foot-passengers contrive to scramble over the
rocks immediately above bed of river. Koad
rejoins the river a short distance before reaching
Ask. The snow was deep on the north face of
the mountains on 21st April.
Road ascends steeply for 3 miles, when it passes
village of Gaznak (50 houses). Thence follow
windings of valley over good road, bending gra
dually north and east-north-east. At 7-| miles
pass village Ghumdash, high above right bank
i.f stream, which is here crossed by wooden
bridge. At 9 miles village of Wana. Koad then
bends north-east. About 12 miles the road is
unfinished, being cut in face of rocks overhang
ing stream. Beyond this it enters the defile of
Malik-Band. At 13 miles cross to left bank by
wooden bridge, 60 or 70 feet above stream. At
13 miles leave defile, and, continuing north, at
13| cross to right bank by Pul-i-Gilara. At 14
miles gorge and old bridge of Kala-Band. Thence
north in valley to Baijan, a village of 20 houses.
Supplies scanty. No sarai or accommodation.
At half a mile cross to the left bank of Haras by
old bridge of Baijan. At 2 miles pass caves of
Ahyoh, below which new bridge is being built.
At 4| miles pass caves of Kuhrud, halting-place
for caravans ; village of 100 houses, lying behind
bill to right. At 7i miles, over bad road, cross
river by Panjah bridge ; village of that name,
lying half a mile distant in lateral glen to left.
At 94 miles cross small tributary stream, the
Ann a war, by new bridge, and continue along
right bank of Haras. At 11 miles reach Kalu-
baitd, halting-place for caravans. Accommoda
tion in caves ; no supplies. At 12| miles junc
tion of Hardarud stream from W.—stream one-
third size of Haras ; and at 16 miles junction of
Kumuru stream from same direction. At 17§
miles new road crosses to left bank by bridge of
Lash, built in old style, narrow and with high
pitch (new bridge under construction). Parusp
is a roadside station with house belonging to the
governor of district, and bath built for his use.
There is public accommodation in shape of dark
caves cut in an old gravel bank of river. No
supplies procurable, save barley.
-Valley from Baijan narrow ; slope preci
pitous, rocky, destitute of vegetation till last 2
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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).
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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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