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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎288v] (581/739)

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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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No. %-Z2 — contd.
T ehran to A nzalt, via Kishlak, Kasvin, fye.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
10
D istances
IN MIliBS.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Rustamabid ,,
11
K ujdum
12 PvASHT
20
172
20
192
16
Eemask*.
208
Uzan at Manpl, below which their corabined'
waters bear the name Safi-rud. The road then
bends to the left, and about 3 miles from Pai-K
Chinar, crosses the bridge of Loshan, beyond
which the district of Jamalabad commences^
The heat here is intolerable. The Shahrud here-
flows through a broad sandy valley, bounded on
either side by dry barren hills. The villages are
only inhabited in winter. The cane-brakes on
the banks, and the dry plains beyond, swarm with
bugs. To the right are mountains of some
height with a few trees and villages, of which
Biwarzan is the most important. On the left the
hills are lower; in a valley on this side are the
villages Ulkand and Ulshan. Near the northern
end of the valley, lies the village of Siyapush,
with large olive groves. Twelve miles from the'
Loshan bridge is the village of Manjil, with a
post-house and telegraph office. Above it, at the-
edge of the forest, the little village of Har-zeblL
Rustamabad proper is a large village in the moun
tains some distance (perhaps 3 miles) off the road
to the left. The chaparkhanah stands alone
near the roadside ; provisions scarce. The cara- m
vansarai is a quarter of a mile beyond the chapaxv
khanah, where there is also a very small village.
Leaving Rustamabad the road is somewhat hilly
for the first farsakh, when a toll-gate is passed,
whence there is a made road the whole way \o
Rasht. This road, however, as far as Kudum is.
for the most part in a shocking state of repair^
and after wet weather is a veritable quagmire.
When the river is not full its bed forms the best
track in many places. Near the toll-gate, fertile
country is entered, and at 4 farsakhs distant,
over an undulating rough road through beautiful
forest scenery, the cbaparkhanah of Kudum is;
reached.
Kudum consists of a chaparkhanah and caravan--
sarai. Supplies are very scarce. Owing to the
humidity of the climate the floors of the buildings
are boarded, the roofs sloping and red-tiled, a&
indeed are all the buildings throughout the pro
vince of Ghilan.
From Kudum to Rasht the distance is not more
than 16 miles, notwithstanding the postal autho
rities pay for 6 farsakhs, and the chaparkhanah-
people charge for 7 and sometimes 8 faiy

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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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