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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [283v] (571/739)
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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508
No, 220— conld,
Tehran to Bayazid, via Zindjan, Tabriz^ Khoi.
No.
D istances
IN MILBS.
of
•tagc.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
E emabks.
15
Tuekman Chai
21
275
The road is one succession of high hills, with a
stream in the valley below. On setting out from
Mianeh, go by the banks, and frequently cross a
stream, up to a horse's belly and very rapid.
The whole of the road is very easy of access, with
apparently no impediment to an army except
on the Kafilan Kuh, and there only in a few
passes.
16
Tikmadash ...
21
•
296
Road on a bearing of north 40° west over the same
sort of country as before ; but, owing to rain, the
ground was soft.
At about the 6th mile came to a richly cultivated
valley ; the village of Uzamchi, about 2 miles on
the right. Not a tree all over the country, but
there is generally much cultivation.
17
Saidabad
25
321
Road good north 40° west. At 5 miles the village
of Bini Kieu. At about the 20th mile entered a
pass in the mountain, on the right of which was 1*
a piece of water.
After ascending and descending the pass, came to
a caravansarai; it contains a square area of two
hundred and sixty paces of solid construction.
Turned off from the high road to the left, and at
about 2^ miles from the caravansarai reached
Saidabad.
There is a great scarcity of wood over the whole
country traversed.
18
Tabbiz ...
14
335
Bearing north 50° west. At 10 miles came to a
stream running from south-west to north-east,
and surrounded by more wood than latterly. The
road across the plain is fine ; about 3 miles from
Tabriz it is intersected by hills of a sandy and
strong soil.
19
Ali Shah
24
359
Bearing of route, north 75° west. Difficulties
along the road through the centre of the plain
which was then (1st June) in many places flood
ed. Near Tabriz, on the left, are some houses
and gardens; then the village of Mayan.
Having travelled 3 miles from Tabriz on a bearing
nearly north, came to a bridge of nine large and
three small arches, thrown over the river Agi,
which flows from east to west, and falls into the
Shadi (Urumia) lake. It rises near Ardabil, and
is fordable by mules where we crossed it.
About 4 miles from Tabriz passed the village of
Alwar, and, 3 miles further on, another village
of the same name, each surrounded with a
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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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