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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [304r] (612/739)
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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b49
No. 227—contd.
Tehran to Kaumanshah, vidi Hamad an.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
I If MILES.
K bmibks.
[nterrue-
diate.
Total.
14
A sadabad
14
212
left. At 7 miles pass a village off left of roaa.
Cross another stream. At 8 miles road turns a
low rocky spur of bills on right. Thence to en
camping ground slight ascent over rocky ground.
Encamping-ground situated on rocky slopes
overlooking Zagha, high and open, but rather
stony. Zagba is a small walled village on the
direct mountain road to Karmanshah, surrounded
by rich cultivation.
General direction of road at starting W. by S.
which changed to S. W. and S. by W. during the
descent over the mountains. The last part of
march S.S.W. The pass is steep and rugged in
parts, but is in no place impassable for artillery.
Heights in immediate neighbourhood of road
could be crowned throughout. The rock consists
of slate with occasional patches of quartz and
granite. Water good and plentiful from in
numerable streams. Supplies procurable from
Hamadan and the surrounding country. Pass
round left of Zagha, between it and Siman, and
through village of Siman at 1 mile. At 2i miles
cross broad and deep stream running down the
plain from mountains off left. At 3 miles rejoin
high road to Karmanshah, and pass large mud
ruins on right. Hence gradual ascent through
fertile and well cultivated plain. Pass a village
under mountain off left. At 5 miles reach top
of ridge; cross a stream, and at 6J miles pass
large village of Tajabad off right; thence
descend, and at 7J miles pass small village off
right. Cross stream at 8 miles, and another at 9
miles ; hence gradually ascend for half a mile,
when highest point of a pass is reached. Moun
tain of Elwand, and the heights off left, covered
with snow. Thence steep descent to 10 miles,
where cross two torrents at bottom of a ravine.
Hence slight ascent to 11 miles, where pass small
village in ravine off right with small ruined fort
on opposite slope just above it ; thence steep
descent from hills. At 12J pass some ruins on
side of hill on right. Direct road over main
mountain range here joins. It is very difficult
and impracticable for baggage animals heavily
laden. Thence gradual descent, crossing a rapid
torrent repeatedly, to camping-ground. Situa
tion high and ample by side of small torrent in
sloping plain N. E. of Asadabad. Water sweet,
but rather muddy. Asadabad is a small walled
town of 3,000 inhabitants, surrounded by
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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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