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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [303v] (611/739)
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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548
No. 227— eontd.
T ehran to K armanshah, vioi Ramadan,
No.
D istances
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
nterme.
diate.
Total.
B smasss.
12
H amada N
8
187
Road generally level and good, througViout in a
S. W. direction through an alluvial plain.
Water procurable from streams and an aqueduct
on the march. Supplies from Hamadan. As
cend and cross a short steep ridge. At 2i miles
pass mud embankment on left also a Tcanat of
good water on right. At 3 miles cross two
watercourses, and pass between two villages oif
either side of road. At 4 miles pass an imamzada
on mound to right. Here some large boulders
of dark red granite lie strewed about the plain.
Cross a watercourse, and arrive at large fortified
village of Shavorin, surrounded by double walls,
60' high. There is no road through this village,
which has only one gate on S. side. Ordinary
road leads round to right, and is nearly 1 mile
in circuit; but there is a narrow way for foot-
passengers round the left side of the village,
through some huts and enclosures, which is far
shorter. At pass long lane between garden
walls. Road then circles round a lofty mud wall,
enclosing the ground and garden of the house of
the governor of Hamadan. At 6 miles pass
large ruined village on right. Some low detached
hills are now passed a short distance off right,
and road passes under a high mound on left. At
7 miles ford stream, which in rainy season is
crossed by a brick bridge about 200 yards higher
up on left, and, continuing along high road, at 8
miles reach encamping-ground in sandy plain
outside N. E. suburbs of Hamadan. Hamadan
contains about 5,OOOinhabitants, and has exten
sive streets and bazaars, down which streams flow.
Bellew makes it 218 miles to Hamadan.
13
Z aqha
11
198
Road rugged and difficult throughout, and much
cut up by streams. Near Hamadan it is mostly
under water, swampy, and almost impassable.
Direction N. W. by W. for first 8 miles ; thence
S. W. by W. to Zagha. Water Abundant and
good from streams. Supplies procurable of
every kind. Pass through city, and at 1 mile
cross deep rapid stream on which it is built, by a
stone bridge. Hence to 4 miles, road passes along
the rocky beds of streams, which inundate their
neighbourhood, and render the road very swampy
and difficult. Several villages and ancient ruins
(partly of marble) lie on both sides. At 4 miles
cross broad stream by small brick bridge in bad
repair. At 6 miles cross a stream running down
through thick groves from village under hills off
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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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