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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [305v] (615/739)
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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552
Ko. Wl^contd,
Tehran to Karmanshah, vid llama dan.
No.
of
stage.
Names of etages.
D istances
in miles.
R ehabzs.
Interme
diate.
Total.
18
Kirmanshah ...
21
290
ascend throuorh valley for 1 mile, and cross spur
of low rocky hills by the Kajawah Shikkan Pass
at 2 miles. At 5 miles there is a bend of the
Gamasiab river on left. Cross several water
courses, and at 5J miles pass on left small fort
on high mound called Hasan Khan, now ruined
and nsed as a caravansarai. At 6 miles pass
village of Akbar Khan, and cross a canal by a
bridge. At 8 miles another bend of the Gama
siab approaches close to left of road, which here
passes under a high precipitous hill on the right
called Shamran. At 9 miles cross canal by
bridge ; village of Sainanghan off right of road.
At miles the Gamasiab again abuts on left.
At 10^ pass a small scattered village on artificial
mounds on left, at foot of which are poplar plan
tations, and cross deep canal by bridge. At 12
miles cross by a bridge a small stream called the
river Zurdabad, running down from a village of
that name lying off right. At 14} miles pass
through small village of Nadirabad. Pass by a
bridge a deep canal cut from the Gamasiab,
which here flows on left of road, and a little
further on (at 15|- miles) cross the river Dinavar,
a tributary of the Gamasiab, by lofty brick bridge
in bad repair. Thence pass close under peak of
Piru on right to encamping-ground, among
fields on left near a ruined sarai, and some stone
huts at the foot of the peak. Encamping-ground
rather confined, owing to the broken nature of
the ground, which is intersected by numerous
streams, tributary to the Gamasiab, flowing down
from the peak of Piru, which rises abruptly from
the plain to the height of l ,70 (y. Besitun is a
miserable village of a few houses.
Road generally level and good ; first-half slightly
undulating. General direction west by south
to bank of Karasu; thence west to Karman-
shah. Water on march from Karasu and smaller
streams. Supplies from Karmanshah. Leaving
camp, slight ascent for 1 mile. Road now un
dulates for some miles over low spurs of high
mountains on right; it then gradually recedes
from those on left, crosses a stream, and soon
after, at 8 miles, passes through remains of
marble walls and columns.
At 12 miles pass large village on low hills off left,
and at 14 miles walled village on right in plain.
Thence road continually skirts foot of lofty
mountains of Behistan, keeping them about 2
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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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