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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [286v] (577/739)
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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514
No. 222— conid.
Tehran to Anzalt, via Kishlak, Kasvin, Sfc,
D istances
in miles.
No.
of Names of stages,
stage.
IIEMIEIS,
3. Yenghi Imam.
4. Miskenabad or Gazr-i-Sang.
5. Hlasar, 28 miles of road throngli a plain
bounded by mountains on either side, and
watered by small streams.
6. Kasvin, 12 miles, road heavy the whole way.
This, it will be seen, follows portions of the first,
second and third named routes.
The carriage road is the one most frequented by
travellers, a distance of 24 farsakhs (96 miles).
Vehicles are procurable at Tehran and Kasvin,
and horses are laid out at the various post-
houses.
In lieu of the old chaparkhanahs, substantial post-
houses have been erected at a distance of about
16 miles apart. These post-houses are built of
burnt brick, contain good rooms, partially fur
nished, and have patches of garden in front of
them.
At Shahabad and Hazarek no provision;?, except
tea, eggs and fowls are obtainable. About a
farsakh from the former station the Karaj river
is crossed by means of a substantial stone
bridge, built, I believe, during the reign of Shah
Abbas.
At Yenghi Imam is a small village where mutton
or lamb is sometimes procurable. Yenghi Imam
possesses a mosque.
Kishlak and Kavandeh are like Shahabad and
Hazarek with regard to provisions.
The plain between Tehran and Kasvin is plenti
fully dotted with villages, orchards and vine
yards, and large tracts of country are under barley
and wheat cultivation. Cf. Eoute No. 220,
stage 6.
Kasvin is a large, though somewhat dilapidated
walled town, and contains a native, as well as an
English telegraph office.* The Daran Khana
and post-house form a handsome building, where
furnished apartments, food, attendance, etc., can
always be obtained. The Governor of Kasyin
lives on the premises when in town, and in fact
is the real proprietor of the hotel. Outside the
town the vine is extensively cultivated.
4 K ishlak
5 K avandeh
6 K asyin
3 Y engli I mam
1 S hahabad
2 H azaeek
16 36
16 32
16 48
16 64
16 80
16 96
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London,
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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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