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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [278r] (560/739)
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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497
63
No. 218— conf.d.
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Tehran to Astrabad, via Firuzlmh and Ziarat,
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
i3sr MILES.
Interme
diate.
Total.
B emaeks.
Khing
31
8 FulhadMahall^
10
il
Chashma-i-Ali
Chahaedeh
Tube Maidan.,
2S?
14S|
177;
34}
16|
2m
228
25
2532
7,900 feet, 111 hours. To pasturage of Chamau
Jask, 12 miles over easy ground. At 9j miles a
range of low hills lying at right angles to the
valley, A track branches here to Samnan, 22J
miles. Pasturage and cultivation of Arse ran.
Road then rises to Khing plateau by steep ascent,
height, 8,000 feet. Khing consists of small pas
turage for the nomads ; supplies—sheep, goats,
fuel and water available, Eoad easy for mules.
5,400 feet. Of hours. 5 miles to Chaman Karand,
8 miles j thin forest and stunted bushes; 9J track
descends from 6,750 feet to 6,000 feet to the
Rasm-i-Rudbar Chaman, a long meadow, J to %
mile broad. Path to south-east to Samnan-Dam-
ghan road. 221 miles track rises to 6,950 feet.
Remains at this level for 2 miles, then drops to
5,400 feet to the broad valley of Fulhad Mahalla;
28| miles to village of Fulliad Mahalla (150
houses). Valley here well cultivated. Supplies
and water available. Branch road to Darwar,
Daolatabad to Damghan. Road easy for mules
throughout.
4,350 feet, 10J hours. Road north-east through,
the valley of Fulhad Mahalla ; cultivation rar eand
water scarce. At 14 miles patch of cultivation
and water (scarce). At 34J miles Chashma-i-Ali,
a village of few houses and gardens of the Shah!
The spring here fertilizes this part of the coun
try. Supplies of sheep and goats. Fuel avail
able.
5,400 feet, 4f hours. At 8f miles village of Tala-
tar (50 houses). Water fairly plentiful and fair
cultivation as far as Chahardeh, Chahardeh is
a cluster of thriving villages hidden in a mass of
trees, and boasts a fine garden of the Shah. Sup
plies available. Road easy for mules. Roads
branch to (1) Damghan, (2) Mazandaran via Pa.
band,
6,800 feet, 10| hours. Road bears west of north
and rises gradually to 6,300 feet. At 11^ miles
forest commences to thinly cover hill sides. 16J
miles track descends to level of small stream
(5,450 feet), and shortly after valley narrows to
rocky gorge about 20 yards in breadth. 19 miles,
a valley from north-east joins main caravan route
(Chahardeh, Chaman-i-Sawah, Bandar Gaz) and
leads to Turk Maidan enclosed by precipitous
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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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