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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎286r] (576/739)

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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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65
5lS
No. 222.
Iehran to Anzalt^ Dii KiMaJc, Kasvin, PacKinctr^ Rusiamabad dnd
RasH.
Authority —Eastwick j Schindler • Wells (1888).
No.
of
Stage.
Names of stages.
distancba
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
The plain wliicli extends from Tehran to Kasvin
is traversed bj four roads.
The first or more northerly, which skirts the foot
of the Alhurz mountains, is now seldom used, the
streams which it crosses at the points where they
issue from the hills having been bridged lower
down. General Marter, however, who traversed
this route two months since, gave the following
names as the stages which he made: —
1. Karij*... ,,, 6 farsakhs^
2. Huzi Eustam ... 6 „
3. Aigsar ^ 6 „
4i Kasvin .m ... 4 „
22 farsakhs=88 miles*
* A village at the motith of k gorge in mountains whence issues
the Karij river, which is generally fordable, but there is a
brick bridge, half a mile above the village.
The second, which is the carriage road, will be des
cribed furthei' on.
The third or old Ghapar road, which is south of
the carrige road, had the chaparkhanahs as fol
lows :—
Mian Jub, Sangurabad, Safar Khoyej Ab-
dulabad, Kasvin.
This is not now used.
The fourth, which follows the richly cultivated
ground which lies at the lowest part of the plain^
is as follows: —
1. From Tehran, 7 farsakhs, to the direction of
Sheriar.
2. Ishtad (Istahapad?)
3. Seszabad (SagziapadP)
4. Isrebari,
5. Kasvin.
These roads are followed according to the cheap
ness of provisions in the various villages through
which they pass, muleteers also arranging to fol rf
low the road where fodder is least expensive.
All of them except the carriage road have Inore
or less plentiful supplies. The road followed by
caravans at the present moment is as follows
1. Mianjub.
2. Khalat.
• Here distances are taeaaui^d by tbe agttcki Trlucli conespocdi wactly to the wlat or hour.

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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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