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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [291v] (587/739)
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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5U
No. %%3-~~conelcl.
T ehran to G ulpaigan, via Kum, Daolatahad and Mahallat.
No.
D istances
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
B emabss.
10
kaidu
(I dd P)
19
190
Leave valley referred to above and enter defile,
thence cross Kamari plain. Small village j water
brackish.
11
G ulpiigan
5,875'.
15
205
Ascends to rocky heights on right bank, thence
descends by bad and broken road ; twice crosses
stream and then through rocky defile through
populous tract of the north-east end of Gulpai-
gan plain. Gulpaigan a town of 3,000 inhabi
tants. See Index.
EelFs route from stage 9 is as follows
10
G uls-a
23
196
Cross the valley in a south-west direction keeping
under the Kuh-i-Mahallat ; road good and hard ;
cross a succession of ledges and valleys. At 6
miles or so cross two or three streams ; at 7 miles
Kasimabad, whence a branch road leads to Sul-
tanabad. Cross a barren basin, 2 or 3 miles wide.
At 12 miles enter low hills, and at 18 reach
cultivated ground about Darband. From Dar-
band there is a direct road through Kaidu to
Gulpaigan, but it is not so good. Gulfa is a
small village.
11
K homai
11
205
Cross the valley, and over a small canal through
cultivation to Naziah (5 miles) (5,775') ; then
across fields to Furfan. At 11 miles Khomai, a
small town on the left bank of a stream, 15' wide ;
it lies on the direct road from Gulpaigan to Sul-
tanabad, distance 36 miles. Cf. Route No. 80,
stage 7.
12
G ulpaioan
15
•
•
220
Ascend gently to cross the Hulvun hill, the last
bit of the ascent being steep and narrow. The top
of the ascent is 8,200'. It then winds down
the other side, the last mile of descent being easy.
Cross the river Karij or Ab-i-Khonsar, 60 yards
wide, by a masonry bridge and enter Gulpaigan,
Cf. Koute No. 80, stage 6.
There is another route from Kum, of which the
stages are—
Miles.
1. Daghaa ... ... 15
2. Nezau ... 17
3. Dodakh ... ... 18
4. Namavar... ... 18
5. Gulmagird ... ... 20
6. Gulpaigan ... 20
Total from Tehran ,,, ... 218
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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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