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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎296r] (596/739)

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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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533
No. 226— conlcl.
T ehran to I sfahan, via Post Road,
No.
of
stage.
Nances of stages.
D istances
in miles.
R emarks.
■v
Interme
diate.
Total.
10
Son (telegraph
station).
18
210
is good, but leaves a thick white deposit on the
bank. The road then enters and follows the bed
of this nullah ; high mountains on the left; and a
less elevated flat-topped ridge along which infan
try might march* To the right, at 22 miles, the
river is closed by a dam, forming a fine sheet of
water in the spring. If this bank were to hurst,
Kashan and surrounding country would be inun
dated. Road passes along right margin of the
lake, which is 7,000' above the sea, and such water
as may remain in it or the stream is liable to be
frozen. The ascent here is steep and roughly
paved, but guns could be -dragged over it. At 25
miles the valley opens out, forming a fine open
plateau, surrounded by hills. _ The road follows a
valley to the right, down which flows the stream
from Koh-rud to Gabarabad, and shortly after
enters the fine terraced gardens and cultivation
of the latter. The water in the brook here and
at Koh-rud is free from the white precipitate
observed farther down. Koh-rud is a large rich
village, built on the side of the steep bare hills
to the right of the road, in the arc of a
circle, the chord of which is occupied by a
small caravansarai and post-house, and an
old fort on an eminence. The valley below the
village is about half a mile wide, and is filled with
chinars, poplars and fruit trees ; above the village
the valley opens to a mile wide, and is carefully
cultivated in terraces irrigated by the stream
running towards Gabarabad, which will be noticed
below. There are large herds of goats and sheep
at the village. Encamping-ground for small
force off road on slopes of hills.
General direction south-west. Road good ; steep
near top of pass. From Koh-rud the road follows
the valley of the Gabarabad stream, which disap
pears at 3 miles. The ascent is gentle at first,
but becomes rather steep near the top of the pass
at 5 miles (8,750'From this point the road des-
cends slowly through high valleys surround
ed by gently sloping hills, and communicating
with each other by gorges with precipitous
hills on each side. There is a little good water
in a marshy spring at 7 miles, and a good
stream at 9 miles, which is a favourite hal^g-
place for mules. The road thence runs through
a narrow valley shut in by barren hills. Leaving
this-it passes over several ranges of small round
hills, and crossing a stream of tolerable water at

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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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