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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [294r] (592/739)
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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629
No. 226— contd.
T ehran to I sfahan, via Post Road.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total,
Kemabes.
Kum [intermedi
ate and testing
station of Per
sian Teleqraph)
3,00]'.
17| 97 General direction south. By a gentle descent _ to
the Karatsu (or Karatchai), a tributary of which
is crossed at 2J miles by a small bridge, which
is crossed at miles by a fine masonry and
stone bridge of five arches. Just beyond the
bridge is Rahmatabad, the post-house. A cause
way is in course of construction (1889) from the
foot of the slope from Manzaria to the bridge
as the desert is very boggy in wet weather; the
same description applies to the^rest of this stage,
throughout which the road is level and nearly
straight. No villages between those on the
banks of the Karatsu and Kum. Cultivation
commences 5 miles north of that place. (Wells).
Colonel Sawyer (1890), Curzon, and also Wells describe yet a third road
from Tehran to Kum as follows
Robat Kaeim ...
PIK
K USHK-I -B AH-
KAM.
Manzaeiah
Kum
28
28
24
52
16
68
28
96
16
112
Leave Tehran by the Hamadan gate. At once
enter upon clay, cultivated soil. Level, treeless
country. Pass a few villages near the road.
Village supplies. Chaparkhanah.
Over country same as last for 5 miles; then
along sandy soil, level to 20th mile. Then
enter low hills and descend to ruined villages.
Supplies scarce. Chaparkhanah.
"?he first and part of the second stage follow the
Tehran-Hamadan post road.
Over level ground for 5 miles; then enter low
range. Track along stream ; reach
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
at 1 2th mile. Descend easily to chaparkhanah.
No village ; no supplies ; good water.
Across flat, treeless, deserted valley ; over sandy
and gravelly track for 10 miles ; then cut into
Amin -ul-Sultan or the caravan road. Follow
this to chaparkhanah, 4 miles beyond the cara-
vansarai of Manzariah.
Curzon gives Rahmatabad as the fouith stage
[vide preceding Route, stage 6).
Along the Amin -ul-Sultan road, which leads
straight to the bridge into the bazaar.
This route follows the Teh ran-Hamadan post
road for nearly two stages ; general direction west-
south-west thence south, till the first route is joined
about 18 miles from Manzariah. A company,
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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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