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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [302r] (608/739)
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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645
69
No. —contd.
T ehran to K armanshah, via Hamadan.
No.
D istances
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
E euabks.
8
marik ...
17
128
Water plentiful from streams. Throughout the
march supplies procurable of every kind. Leaving
camp at quarter mile, cross a low ridge; thence
to ] mile long undulating ascent (intersected by
numerous watercourses, which irrigate the trees
and garden in a valley on right) to steep ridge.
Descending, cross a deep watercourse, and pass
toll-house On left, and, continuing descent, ford
river about 3' in depth, bed about 100 yards
broad (in summer only 30' of water). A little
further on pass village of Nuvaran Kuchak in
the valley, and at 2 miles some high garden
walls on right. Between this and 3rd mile
cross three watercourses in succession. At 4
miles pass some ruined buildings and walls on
left of road. At 5 miles a beautiful spring, and
subsequently two streams which flow from it.
At 6 miles cross dry torrent in undulating plain.
Here some low scattered hills lie on left, and
some lofty ones about 1 mile off right; thence
to 7i ascent from plain to table-land. Pass a
village in gardens off left. Next short descent
from table-land. At 8 milos pass an extensive
ruin on left of road, and subsequently ruined
village of Dukan on same side. At 10J miles a
small stream crosses the road ; thence ascent,
followed by a short bit of table-land. At 11^
miles cross a steep rugged ridge, whence descent;
and at 12J cross dry bed of a torrent. Cross a
stream at 13J, and at 14J miles dry bed of an
other ton-ent. Ascend a long slope of hills on
right, and, after crossing the ridge, descend
steeply throngh rough and stony defile in range
of low grassy hills aforesaid to 16 miles. Thence
over broken ground in north direction to camp-
ing-ground. The main road is left at the 15th
mile. Camp among fields east of Marik, a
small village, built on site of a ruined town,
situated in a dell between lofty hills, with a few
trees and scanty cultivation, watered by a stream
on which the village is built.
9
Z aeeeh
14
142
Road from 2nd to 5th mile over steep and rugged
ascents; thence undulating to 10th; rough and
indifferent for last 4 miles. Soil, loam, sand,
and conglomerate. Water procurable from
streams and watercourses. Supplies none. Leav
ing Marik, pass over undulating ground. Cross
torrent, and at 1 mile pass round lofty rock.
Thence to end of 2nd mile short rugged ascent,
over sandstone spur, which here crosses road and
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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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