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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [296v] (597/739)
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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534
No. 226—
T ehran to I sfahan, via
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles,
Interme
diate.
Total.
E emabks.
11
Mobchikan
25
235
12
G ez
24
15 miles, enters the valley of Soh, described above.
Soh consists of two considerable walled villages,
built on slight eminences and a large brick cara-
vansarai in rear of the space between them, on
the rough rising ground towards the hills about
a quarter of a mile off. The village walls
are
flanked by towers, and the houses are loopholed
for musketry. These villages are built in an
irrigated
valley running north, 20° east and
south, 20° west, and bounded to the west by a
high and bold range of hills running off into a
more rounded and lower range towards the south
end of the valley. The latter is divided diagonal
ly by a nullah, 20' or 30' wide and difficult to cross,
which irrigates the fields, and supplies the villages
with water. There is a telegraph station.
One farsakh further on are the village and post-
house of Bideshk. (Curzon.)
General direction south-east. Eoad level and good
across a wide barren plain. Leaving Soh the
road crosses the nullah at the lower village by a high
causeway with a small waterway, both banks high
and abrupt. At 5i miles the road passes the vil
lage of Deh-Lur, on the left bank of the nullah,
and leaving the latter on the right, passes over a
wide barren plain, on which at 16 miles is an
ahambar, which generally contains good rain
water. From this point Morchikan is distant 7
miles across the same plain. Morchikan is a large
fortified village, walls about 500 to 700 yards
long and flanked by round tower*. There is an
other large village, about 1,000 yards off, and
several extensive walled gardens near the post-
house and caravansarai. The water-supply is from
a canal which is passed just before reaching
the caravansarai. It is said to be brackish, but
is hardly appreciably so. The village is situated
on a wide plain 1| miles south-east of some small
hills. Supplies scarce. Encamp in plain near
caravansarai or beyond village.
According to Markham this stage is 28 miles, while
Curzon calls it 24. Water is plentifal and
flows m streams from the Jcanats. (Markham.)
259 General direction south-east by east. Road good
and level the whole way. A few undulations in
defile at 7 miles. Soil first-half of march gravel
ly ; second-half alluvial. From Morchikan the
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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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