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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [306v] (617/739)
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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554
No. 228— contd.
T ehiian to M ashad, via Kishlak, Samnan, Sfc,
No.
of
tago.
Names of stages.
Aiwan-i-Kaif
D istances
IIS miles.
IhtGrme-
diate.
Total.
B emabes.
27
Kishlas
21
45
66
Half an hour after, stream with willows spanned
by stone bridge. At 5 miles pass town of Shah
A.bdnl Azim, in the midst of the ruins of city of
Rai or lihages. Water and supplies abundant.
After ruins pass through villages Takiabad and
Aminabad, Cross small ridge and follow stony
hillskirt. Between 6th and 8th mile cross several
streams. Villages right and left of road.
Route east-south-east across Yeramin plain, by good
gravelly road skirting hill range to left, over which
towers conical snow-clad peak of Damavand. At
1J miles cross dry deep nullah and near it two
streams from left. At 3 miles cross stream ; at
3^ village with few trees, and a ruined fort on
mound on left. At 4 miles cross three streams
from right, and pass the sarai of Kabud Gumbaz.
Water plentiful. Supplies none. Beyond this
road is, but for a few undulations, level. Soil
for most part gravel. Quarter of an hour farther
cross the Jajirud river, about 1 mile in breadth,
several watercourses banked up in this space.
The river is ultimately lost in plain of Veramin.
Half an hour after passing river, pass village
Khasran on right, and 35 minutes farther Shari-
fabad on left. Aiwan-i-Kaif is a flourishing
village of 300 houses round a fort, and is sur
rounded. by gardens and vineyards watered from
strong harez stream. Fruit abundant; other
supplies scarce. The village lies on the banks of
the brackish Zamrud, 50 yards wide, flows in
a ravine, and dries up in August. To south-west
the country slopes down to wide plain of'
Veramin.
Road excellent. Soil gravelly. At 6 miles enter
defile of
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
-i-Kuk through low ridge of hills
that end at plain a few miles to right. Breadth
varies from 300 to 800 yards. Its exit very
narrow, about 30 yards. Cross a salt stream
several times. Hills mostly barren till about 20
miles. Across cultivation for last mile. Villages
of Husenabad and Kala-i-Nao, half a mile right
of road. During last half a mile cross several
watercourses, some full, others empty. At
Kishlak is the Habla-Rud, a fine large stream
with brick bridge. A great deal of cultivation
all round. The heights bordering the
Sirdar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
-i-
Kuk defile can be crowned with ease and turned.
Bearing south-east to end of Pass, thence to
Kishlak east-south-east. Water good, but mud
dy. Supplies plentiful.
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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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