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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [291r] (586/739)
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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523
No, 223— contd.
T ehran to G ulpaigan, vid Kuniy Daolatahad and Mahallat,
No.
D istances
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
E imaeks.
5
K UM
21
•
110
Proceeding east-soufcli-ea^t, cross at the 2nd mile
the Kara-chai, a paltry little stream, at this part
only about 10 yards wide and a few inches deep.
It must be remembered, however, that in its
course thus far from the mountains it gives life
to many villages, for each of which more or less
water is taken up in irrigation. At about 4th
mile, pass to left, the village Kala Safdar, after
which direction varies between south-east and
east-south-east, until at SJ miles reach the Kuh-i-
Namak, an isolated rocky mountain, several
hundred feet high, from which saline springs
issue, and leave a thick deposit of salt. Leaving
this, proceeded 5 miles in direction south-east
near some low hills, which here interrupted the
plain on left. Afterwards direction became
south-east by east, and then gradually east by
south, along plain of Kum, which town, after
passing some well cultivated land, enter by a
small low bridge over a stream (the Nalbar).
See Index.
6
D aghan
3,860'.
12
122
Leave Kum (telegraph station) by good stone bridge.
At 3 miles cross low ridge. Road is wide and
good, but stony and traverses a stony plain
with patches of cultivation, and runs parallel to
the river which lies on right. Daghan is a
small villge on the Ab-i-Khonsar amid cultiva
tion.
7
D aolatabad
4,570'.
21
143
V
Long ascent over range of rocky hills. At 3
miles cross a stream. Pass Kala-i-Cham (at 6
miles), two village forts. Over a ridge and cross
river at 13 miles by stone bridge (Pul-i-Katchak)
and along left bank to Daolatabad, a simple mud
village. Water from river.
8
Khoeea ...
13
156
Direction south. Road good along long stony
plain with low hills on each side. Water from
Icanat. Bell's distance to Khorra is 11 miles.
9
M ahallat
6,920'.
15
171
Cross low saddle-back, then ascend through valley
from rounded hills. Cross mountain ridge by
small steep kotal 'and descend by narrow zigzag
to Mahallat, last portion of which is difficult, in
fertile bay of arid valley. Good water from
springs.
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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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