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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [290r] (584/739)
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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521
No. 223.
T ehran to G ulpaigan, vid Kum,
Authority — A bbott ; B ell ; S tack.
No.
Distances
ik miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme-
diate;
Total.
Bemabkb.
1
Baheamabad^
11
11
Direction about west-soutli-west to village fort
called Kala Nao, situated at about 'S miles
from Tehran. At 6th mile reach mound south of
Yaftabad, an artificial elevation of considerable
size. Villages appear in ail directions about
the plain, in general situated within high walls,
with groves and gardens extending around them,
and the plain more or less cultivated in their
vicinity* From mound, direction south-west to
village Chahar Dangi at 7th mile ; that of Shah
Terre (?) at 8th and that of Malikabad at 10th
mile. Whence to village Bairamabad,in direction
south-south-west, is about f of a mile*
2
Paizabad
40
51
Proceeding south-west, reach at 2nd mile village
Kasimabad. After which, road varying in direc
tion from west to west-south-west^ arrives at 4th
mile at village of Salian. Close beyond Salian come
to deep bed of the Karij, in which at this season
there is little water, but during the floods this
is a dangerous and difficult ford, and accidents
frequently occur. Thence proceed north by west
passing presently a weather-worn artificial mound
and village Kulma, situated at 5th mile. Then
south-west by west to that of Sultanabad at the
6th mile, and south-west by south and south-west
to that of Nasrabad, at 8-| miles the villages on
the plain around becoming less frequent. At the
12th mile reach, in a direction west-south-west
and south-west from the last village, that of
Robat Karim, a flourishing place of some 300
houses. Being on the high road to Ramadan,
it is a station for caravans, for the use of which
there is good accommodation. Prom this to
Paizabad is 7 farsakhs, or 28 miles, generally
over a parched and desert tract, which it is better
to traverse during the night, in order to avoid
exposure to the great heat in a part where water,
if procurable at all, is salt or brackish. Leave
Robat Karim and travel If miles in a direction
of 250° along a manificent highway. Then
miles at 265° to ruined caravansarai overlooking
descent into valley with a brackish streamlet, Th©
country here had a bad reputation. Prom cara-
vansarai make If miles in general direction of
60° and crossing the streamlet, ascend again ftnd
proceed 6 miles between the points 235° and
240°. After this between west and south-west
* JJrahaiabad according to map.
66
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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