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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [299v] (603/739)
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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540
No. 227— contd.
T ehran to K armanshah, vid Hamad an.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Distances
in miles.
Eemakks.
Interme'
diate.
Total.
4
Amibabad
15
63
marcliing from Shamiran to Wardi. Thence pro
ceed obliquely over top of range along gently un
dulating plateau. Eeacli summit of a ridge (pass)
at head of a defile atl8f miles. Descend gradual
ly through defile to foot of hills, which reach at
19f miles ; thence proceed across barren plain, cut
up by watercourses, to camping-ground. No
cultivation or villages until Pik.
Road level and good through desert plain. General
direction south-west. Water brackish throughout.
Must be obtained from Rubatkarinv or Wardi.
Supplies scanty. At 1| miles pass through
small ruined village of Pik, and at If miles cross
dry bed of stream. Pass village off left, and at
2f miles through village of Sulimanabad. At
3J miles pass through mud ruins, spreading some
way off right. At 3f miles cross a line of ruined
TcanatS) and at 4 miles a watercourse. At 5
miles cross two deep dry torrent beds, about 36 f
broad, with precipitous banks of alluvial
soil. These are bridged over about 100 yards
higher up on left, but bridge is now ruined and
impassable. When full, these torrents would
form a serious obstacle to march of army. At
miles some low hills approach from the east.
At 6^ miles pass short defile of aforementioned
hills. Right off road are two low detached hills.
ki 7 miles pass under the range of low hills an
isolated conical mound (a good landmark) in
plain off right. At miles cross two water
courses ; thence through scanty cultivation ; and
at 8 miles pass under fortified village of Faiz-
abad on left. Soon after pass a ruined mud fort
off left. At 8J miles pass under isolated mound
left. At 9i miles^ range of hills approach from
the east. Immediately after pass walled vil
lage under these hills, and cross a watercourse.
At 10| miles pass end of the hills, and an iso
lated one on right. At 13 miles pass village of
Khurshidabad, and at 14 miles that of Mahmud-
abad. A Jcanat connects these villages, passing
along right side of road. Thence, passing some
gardens on^ left, to camping-ground in plain
east of Amirabad. This town is small, but
strongly fortified, with its walls and gates in a
good state of preservation. Water plentiful,
but brackish, Supplies of every kind procur
able.
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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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