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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [294v] (593/739)
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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580
No. 226— contd.
T ehran to I sfahan, via Pod Road,
No.
Names of stages.
DlSTAlTCES
IN MILES.
-
.of
Bt rge.
Interme
diate.
Total.
R i .aiaek •
representing the Imperial Bank of Persia, has
received a concession from the Shah, to construct
a good road from Tehran via Kum and Sultan-
abad to Muhamarah ; bhe stage from Tehran to
Kum has been (1893) completed, but the further
extension of the project hangs fire, as the companr
is seeking for guarantees either from Her
Majesty s or the Indian Government, (See note
at end of route.)
6
Pasangan
16
113
Direction south-east, by south. Road at starting
very difficult during rainy weather. The road
leaving Kum on the south side, pa-ses through
streets of nuns, and over a plain cultivated for"5
miles, and then barren and stony, and reaches at
10_ miles the village of Langarud, on a small
quick-running stream of good water. The village
has some gardens and cultivation, and is remark
able for two very fine " gaz " trees. The road
thence runs parallel to the hills on the right
over a ban-en stony plain to camp. The large ma
sonry earavansarai and post-house of Pasangan
are situated m an open stony plain. supplies
procurable. Water from (wo large
drinkable, hut requiring straining, as it is full of
animals. Encamp on the gravelly plain near sarai.
Wo village nearer than Langarud, which would be
the best place for troops marching from Kum to
encamp at, making Shorab the next sta^e.
7
SlNSIN
24
137
General direction south-south-east. The road
from the last camp passes along the base of the
hills, and crosses a small stream of running water
at 3 miles after which it traverses a level stony
plain to H^mdes, where it crosses a river-bed with
a little running water brackish, but drunk bv
cattle, to a dilapidated caravansarai, called Sho
rab after the stream. The latter runs through
a rather deep bed, with steep sides, but the cross-
ing on the road is an easy one. Good water
almost sweet, is to begot from a small sprW
running towards the caravansarai from the south
and irngating a few fields. The hills are
distant a quarter of a mile from Shorab and
i'lW r C0U p ntr y generally are barren and s'tonv
consisting of coarse conglomerate, overlyint cW
and breaking away m great masses. From 0 Shu
sming foITdf i l0W -l the f ^mentioned sweet
pnng toi halt a mile, and then eoes thrmicrh
SisZubeT 0f n C,ay hill I t0 19 ^es, where
13 a lumed Vllla ge and good water in a
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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).
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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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