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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎304v] (613/739)

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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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550
No, 227— contd.
T ehran to K aiimanshah, via Ramadan,
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
H em abes.
Interme
diate.
Total.
15
Kangawab
22
234
gardens, and well watered by streams from the-
hills, which flow through the streets. In valley,
about 3 miles higher up, is a strong fort on a
high mound with a village at its foot called
Khariz.
Road excellent throughout, over alluvial soil,
except between 16th and 17th miles, where it
is rugged and stony. Direction S. W, by S.
and subsequently S. by W. From commencement
of ascent from Asadabad valley to Kangawar
S. W, Water plentiful and good from streams
and watercourses. Supplies procurable of ever^"
kind. Pass through the town, whose suburbs
extend to 1| miles. At 4 miles road joins from
left rear, apparently coming direct from main
pass over the Elwand mountain, avoiding Asad
abad, At 5 miles pass small town surrounded
by poplar trees off right. At 6 miles pass
through village of Dih-i-Buzan, where there is
a spring of water supplying the hanats, which
accompany the road all the way from Asadabad.
At 7 miles pass large village off right. Pass
a spring on right of road. At 8 miles
pass through large village of Wadarabad,
the portion on left surrounded by ruined
mud wall, which is a lofty artificial mound. At
9| miles pass mound on right close by which
rises a small stream. At 11 miles cross a deep
pool of stagnant water called Sujahgur by a fine
brick bridge of four arches in good repair (good
landmark). At 12 miles pass walled town
about 2 miles off right called Bifuneh, At 14
miles pass small spring on left, running in a
stream down to village off that side called Deh-i-
Nush, At 15| miles cross small stream called
Sar-i-ab-i-Kherra, flowing down from village
under hill about 1 mile off right of road. As
cending out of valley at 16i miles, cross broad
rocky rugged ridge, and^ at 174 another low
ridge. Thence through richly cultivated plain
covered with walled towns and villages to en-
camping-ground among fields and grassy pastures
E. of Kangawar. On a hill overlooking the
town are the extensive brick ruins of a fortress.
This district is noted for its fertility and the
number of its villages. Persian telegraph office.

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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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