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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [282v] (569/739)
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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506
No. 220— conicL
T ehran to B ayazid ; via Zindjan, Tabriz, Khoi.
No.
D istances
ix miles.
E emabk&.
of
stage.
Names of stages,
1
nterme-
diate.
Total.
across the plain swampy, with another to the
right.
An immense nnmber of villages in the plain ; water
from a river, from which a number of dykes are
cut. Extensive cultivation.
4
Gaze-i-sang
28
67
Passed in the plain 5 tumuli such as are seen on
the plains of Troy.
B
Kishlak
15
82
The mountains still bearing east and west, divided
towards the west, and terminated in low hills.
Many villages-
6
Kasvin
• • •
For about 2 miles before reaching Kasvin, pass by
fields and gardens. Kasvin is almost one mass
of ruins ; it labours under great inconvenience
from want of water ; indeed, throughout the
whole extent of immense plain travelled, there was
not one natural stream but many kanats were
making. For this and last stage, Cf. Route No.
222, stages 4 to 6.
7
slahdahan ...
20
102
Proceed in a direction of south 40° west, and
reach Siahdahan in 5 hours. Road level, of
fine hard gravel, through a plain in high verdure.
Villages numerous, and entrenched in square walls,
with towers at each angle. Siahdahan has
about 500 houses ; water scarce.
8
N ubin ...
25
127
Nurin is situated at the end of the Kasvin plain,
and is the first village in the Bulak of Hamza.
Several villages on the hills near the side of the
road to the left.
The plain had here narrowed to about 3 miles;
the hills on the right quite diminutive, those
on the left increasing in height.
The country one carpet of verdure.
9
Sain Ka la
U
141
Bearing of road north 45° west. At about 3 miles
on the left of the road, small village of Sheraf-
abad and, a mile from this, the large place of
Abhar; 3 miles further on is Khorrumdereh.
The next village was Hia, on the left. Grass is
extremely plentiful all over this country, and
apparently the passage of a large body of men
would not be impeded for want of provisions.
10
sultania
16
157
Road for the first 12 miles on a bearing of north
40° west to a pass (called Tang All Akbar)
through a small rising of the plain. The rest of
the way north 80° west.
* .? llis ^l, stan ® e ^ no ^ but the total distance from Tehran to Kasvin by this road appears to be from 90
100 miles.-U.A,K. J ^
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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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