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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [284r] (572/739)
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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609
No. 220—conid.
T ehran to B ayazid, via Zindjan, Tabriz^ Kolii.
No.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
of
Btage.
Interme
diate.
Total.
K eua.be:s.
cultivated territory and intersected by dykes and
Icanats.
The greater part of the plain'is of a soil strongly
impregnated with salt.
About 4 miles from Ali Shah, we crossed a bridge
of four arches. Luxuriant crops of barley and corn
in the vicinity. The plain of Tabriz extends far
to {he west and south.
The lake of Urumia (Shadi) is about 7 farsahks
(28 miles) from Ali Shah.
20
T asujf ...
33
391
After leaving Ali Shah, the road skirts Shebester, a
large town surrounded by several villages, with
luxuriant cultivation. Streams of water mean
dered in every direction.
Near Shebester passed the village of Mishola,
and lower down in the plain those of Arsoleh
and Hali, on the left of the road. Others are
seen at every turn of the road, situated at small
intervals on either side alternately.
The road skirts the lake throughout its course;
and about 5 miles from Tasuj is a village on the
left called Kudhar Khona, where was a custom
house.
Tasuj has a number of old ruins about it, and
must formerly have been a large place.
21
♦
K hoi
36
421
Course for the first 10 miles, to the foot of the
range which encloses the plain and lake, bore
nearly west, when it suddenly turns to the north
through mountains, and for 10 r : les more wound
among them, through very narrow ^efiles, and by
sharp ascents and descents, till we reached, on
the far side, the plain of Khoi. Towards the lake
the mountains are mostly of an argillaceous soil;
but, towards Khoi, they are green to their sum-
mits, and have valleys covered with fine pasture.
At the distance of two farsakhs from Khoi
(7 miles) passed on the right the village of Disa-
jis, surrounded by fields of wheat and barley ; on
the left of the plain are more villages. Passed a
small range of hills, and came all at once on the
plain of Khoi. Crossed the Otur by a seven-
arched bridge ; the river flows from west to east,
and falls into the Araxes, or Arras, about 12 far
sakhs (42 miles) to the eastward.
The plain of Khoi (in breadth from north to south,
5 miles, and in length 10 miles was covered with
corn, broken only here and there by the foliagd
of enclosed gardens.
Connects with Section II.
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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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