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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [280r] (564/739)
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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501
No. 219— conhl.
T ehran to A strabad, via Lar ValleyFirmkuh
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in milks.
Interme
diate.
Total.
E bmabks.
Damavand
Bagh-i-Shah ...
12
24
45
69
tlie winter, and has no fixed population* The
families of goatherds and shepherds import their
bread-stuff from their winter homes of Veramin,
etc. A gallop of 1 hour 20 minutes, including the
passage of the river twice, and the crossing of a
tributary which joins it on the left, brings you to
the Yurt-i-Khanlar Khan, one of the best of the
encamping-grounds of the many which this val
ley provides. Lofty cone of Damavand domina
tes the valley.
Time, 4 hours. Road follows the Lar river through
more or less grassy land for seven miles, crossing
the river itself and a tributary of white sulphur
ous water which joins it on left bank. This
tributary rises at a remarkable sulphur spring
known as Deev Assiah or " Devil's well."
At seven miles from Yurt-i-Khanlar Khan the Lar
Valley is contracted by the lava flow which, for
merly issuing from Damavand and impinging on
much contorted limestone rocks, dammed it up,
forming a large lake. A stream, the Delichai,
coming from the west slope of the extinct
volcano, joins the main river at this point,
viz., where it enters a deep gorge which it
has cut through the igneous and limestone
rocks. Road to Ask follows the river, but
that for Damavand keeps to right from the
confluence of the Ab-i-Safed, i.e., 1| miles from
Yurt-i-Khanlar Khan, and passing through the
mountains, after five miles the main road from
Tehran to Mashad-i-Sar is reached; these five
miles are rough from here. Turning south
west it ascends for four miles up to Imamzada
Kassim, whence it descends along the ridge of
the mountains in a zigzag to Damavand in a
south-easterl}' direction. Damavand is more of
a town than a village, having a governor, and
a population numbering from 6,000 to 8,000,
and its neighbourhood is well cultivated. Cf.
Route No. 229, stage 2.
Six hours' march. Direction north-easterly. Road
for the first three miles goes through cultivated
ground and over a low hill to south-east, when
it joins main road from Tehran to Firuzkuh,
north-east by east. About three 'miles from
road from this point to south-east, is a village
called Ab Honck. Then road goes along foot
of mountains on north ; those to south are about
three miles distant. Sixteen miles from Dama
vand, the village of Javun was passed ; popula
tion 100, with a chaparkhanah. The river which
passes this village goes to Varanck,
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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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