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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [279v] (563/739)
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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500"
No. 219,
T ehran to A strabad, vid, Larfalley, ChasAma-i-Ati.
Authoritij — S tagso N avaera (1888).
No.
of
etage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
E emakks,
G alandarek ...
14
A fchae
14
19
3 L ae Y ukt K han-
pla K han.
14
33
Leaving Tehran by north-eastern gate, road ascends
gently a stony alluvial slope in north-easterly
direction, and is passable for wheeled traffic till
the Jajirud hills are reached at a distance of 11
miles. The descent on their eastern slope is steep-
and only passable for mules, which take 30
minutes to accomplish it. At foot of descent is
the Jajirud river, with a shooting box of the*
Shah near its right bank. River is some 20
yards broad, and flows south-east to plain ot
Veramin. It is spanned here by a stone bridge.
Galandarek is situated at the foot of the spurs ot
the Alburz range. Considerable cultivation and
several small villages in its neighbourhood. Sup
plies and water plentiful. From the Jajirud river
to this village road is level and good and runs due-
east. Galandarek has an elevation of (say) 5,8GCr
^hour's march. Just beyond Galandaiek a water
course is crossed by a stone bridge. It comes
from a mountain valley of the Alburz, where it
has supplied water to a few villages, and it joins
the Jajirud. Half a mile from Galandarek load,
from an easterly direction, turns sharp north on
entering a small village, and following right bank
of a deep gorge for J of a mile ascends foot hills
of the Alburz ; road in places overlooks a deep
defile, and passing terraced fields and a few vil
lages reaches Afchar, where supplies and water
are plentiful. Afchar is (say) 6,500 feet above
Galandarek. . i. n j ^
Leaving Afchar, course of a valley is followed, ana
then a steep and stony ridge is ascended by a zig
zag till a small plateau is reached with an altitude
of (say) 7y300 feet. From this the ascent is
exceedingly steep over a tolerably well construc
ted mule road, till an altitude of (say) 9,000 feet is
reached. Here
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
which divides the
streams flowing into the Caspian from those now-
ing south is crossed. # 11 t v !
Fifty minutes suffice for descent into the Lar val
ley. At foot of pass mule road, which continues
to the district of Mazandaran, and along whicn
the supply of charcoal is brought for Tehran,
must be quitted, and valley of the Lar, whic
lies east and west, followed. This valley, thoug
for the most part stony and quite uncultiva e
and treeless, has tracts of meadow here and there,
sufficient to support 1,000 good mares ' :) . esld ®, ^
number of flocks of sheep and goats durmg ^
summer. It is, however, quite deserted during
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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)
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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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