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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [288r] (580/739)
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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• ^f* r y •
617
No. 222—
Tehran to Anzalt^ via Kishlak, Kasvin, fyc*
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
IN MILES,
Interme
diate.
Total.
Ebmaeks.
Schindler gives
and Maozil:—»
the followin
on a level wjth the top of the piers. This road-
way will undoubtedly he impa SS able when the
river ,s m flood. Prom this point the road is
bad, fcteep, rocky and somewhat narrow—a pre-
cip.ce-at the bottom of which runs the Safed
End on the r.ght hand, aud the mountain face
on ^e left At about one and a half miles
fiom the bridge, the road improves, but is still
hilly and follows the direction of the river
One farealih from the bridge is the very ex
tensive _ village of Rudbar. Here the olive in-
dustry is earned on ; Kudbar-is on the river bank
and possesses a caravansarai and small bazaar. The
road then passes through olive groves for over a
mile, when it again becomes hilly and in dWm
rocky. Rustamabad is reached at a distance of
three and a half farsakhs from Kudbar.
account of the road between Agha Baba
Abont 2 miles from Agha, Baba, road crosses the
Basher stream which flows to the south, and
tnen passing the village Buhemin continues over
undulating ground into the valley of Dodeh and
passing over another low ridge, reaches at 5
miles the large village of Kuhin, situated in a
fertile valley. Passing the village of Duzarkash,
Hisamabad, and others the road, after another
6 miles, reaches the line large village of Bikandi,
situated on a stream flowing into the Mullah AH
valley, and past Pachinar. The telegraph
poles now cross the Burandasht range, whilst the
projected hue of railway will folloW the Bikandi
valley. From the little spring, called Asalek,
there is a steep ascent. The road then enters
into the Aspabin valley, over-towered on the
right by the rugged Piruz range. This valley
passes at Beg Baghi into that of the Yuzbashi
stream, which is rather wider. Here figs and
oleanders already attest a warmer climate. After
winding for a while_ through this valley, past
winter camps_ of Ghaiasvand nomads, the road
enters the main valley of Mullah Ali (called also
i u S a r . j n )* The picturesque village of Mul
lah Ah is deserted in summer, only a few men
remaining to guard the rice-fields. The stream
at this plape is not passable in spring, except by
the bridge. Passing the village of Kogir, the
road reaches a few miles farther the post-house
of Pachinar. One and-a-half miles beyond,
the luzbashi stream unites with the Shahrud
which latter in its turn unites with the Kizil
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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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