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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [283r] (570/739)
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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507
No. 220—conid.
TteHRAN to Batazid, via Zindjan, TabrizyKkoi.
Distances
No.
in miles,
of
stage.
Names of stages*
Interme
diate.
Total.
Remarks,
11
Zindjan
12
13
Aemagana
24
181
24
Akkhand ...
14
28
Mianeh ...
21
205
233
254
First 20 miles north 30° west; the last 4, north
80° west. The mountains on the left dimi
nished very much ; they terminated in a bear
ing west, and behind them commenced another
chain.
The plain travelled over from Kasvin, now became
hilly and broken j in some places the soil was
soft, and the road swampy and muddy. All this
part of the country is well watered by a variety
of streams, but no large ones. For last three
stages, cf. Route# No. 230, stages 11 to 13.
General bearing of road north. On the left, in
a valley, several villages ; the road all the way is
full of ascents and descents.
At 5 miles came to a valley with a stream and
much cultivation, and, at an interval of 6 miles,
a similar valley with a stream. About 4 miles
from Armagana, came to a third stream.
The whole distance from Zengan is intersected by
valleys.
There is a square fort in the town.
General bearing north 15° west. Koad over a
succession of hills, the valleys of which were
mostly cultivated. At about J 2 miles, on the
left hand side is the village of Dasht 13ukk.
After this reach an eminence, from which an im
mense range of snow-clad mountains was vis
ible.
Road much to the westward and over mountainone
country. As 0 miles passed the village of Gul
Tapa. At 15 miles came to the banks of the
Kizil Uzan, which we crossed by an ancient
bridge; the bed of the stream was about 200
yards in breadth, but was then in a great meas
ure dry.
Commenced the ascent of the Kafilan Kuh im
mediately on quitting the river; this took
just one hour, descent on opposite side half an
hour. In descending saw another river called
Rud Khona Mianeh ; it flows from west to
east, and combined before being crossed
with three other streams (the Karangu, the
Sheher Cheyi, and the Aye Degemeish)
about 3| miles to the eastward, carrying their
united waters into the Kizil Uzan. Crossed
the river by a bridge of 21 arches.
Mianeh was formerly a large town, but is now a
miserable village. For this and the next stage,
cf. Route No. 230, stages 18 and 19»
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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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