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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [277v] (559/739)
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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49*6
No. 218—
T ehran to A strabad, via Ziarat.
No.
of
stage.
Distances
in miles.
Hemarks.
Names of stages.
1
nterme-
diate.
Total.
3
P haloue
%
12
55
7,020 feet J 4 hours. The track follows right bank
of Lar river for 2 miles when mountains close-
in. At this point two paths strike off to Pha-
lour, one by Seapalas on south, the other on north
of river. The northern path passes over easy
slopes and offers no difficulties for mules. Hills,,
treeless and bare; cultivation in patches. At>
12 miles path descends to river level, and crosses
the stone bridge to right bank.
Phalour is name given to cultivation extending for
2 or 3 miles on hill sides of valley. No village ; r
grazing plentiful in summer.
4
N ajaf S ab
1
22
77
7,000 feet, 8 hours. Path runs east alongside stream,
for 12 miles to village of Lashin. At 14 miles
crosses
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
of Larijan and Gbazan Chai
valleys. Descent gradual to village of Najaf Sar ;
road easy, hills rounded and bare of trees with
good grazing. Ordinary supplies available at
villages. Large flocks of sheep and goats on hills?
during summer.
6
FlEUzkUH
23J
100|
5,580 feet, 9| hours.
At 1| miles past village of Behoom (60 bouses),.
„ 3J „ „ „ 5, Osurr (60 houses),
„ 5 „ ,, „ Anderijan (100 houses)-
after which village closes in at rocky gorge not
more than 80 yards in breadth, 100 in length ; ife
then enters on a wide circular plain.
On the north lies the village of Arjuman. At 8J
miles a track branches off to the south to Pera-
min.
At llj miles-past village of Salhaban (valley is^
here f mile broad and well cultivated), thence by
steep ascent of 300 feet to exposed waterless
plateau, across which road runs to Firuzkuh,
Guides necessary. Firuzkuh a large and prosper
ous village on main road to Mazandaran. Sup»
plies available.
6
G ue S afed ...
17
1171
: 6,670 feet, 5J hours. Through a narrow valley,
well cultivated to village of Mohim (15 houses).
At 6i miles a branch track leads north joining
the Firuz Kuh-Mashad-i-Sar route. General
direction of track east and north-east to the Gor
Safed pasturage. Excellent road for mule trans
port throughout. Water and fuel available. The
pastures are occupied during the summer by the
Iliats. A track branches from Gur Safed to
Samnan and a line of telegraph connects the two^
contructed for use of Shah when encamped here*
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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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