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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎310v] (625/739)

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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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56:2
No. 238—
/
Tehran to Mashad, via Kishlak, Samnan y fye.
Distances
No.
Names of stages,
i
1
in miles.
of
•stage.
Lnterme -
diate.
i
Total.
i Remarks.
!
Husainabad
21
Chashma-i-Ali
16i
181
197j
pass out into opon platGR-u of Kudbar, fiscGiidinc
gently. Camp at head of plateau at 13 mil s;
camping.ground, 1 mile across. Water, forage
and wood plenty ; no village.
This mat eh is perfectly practicable for
horsemen and laden mules, the slopes are easy and,
soil light. A road might be made with ease. A
good road goes back from this stage to Samnan.
Leave camp and bear wesfc-north-west. Ascend nar
row glen ; soil gravelly, well clothed with grass;
and afc 1 mile bend left, and bearing west. At 1|
miles reach crest of first ascent, and bending ri^ht
at 4 miles, reach plateau Goud-i-Nasir. At 4| mih-s
reach crest of descent. Koad gravelly; ascent
300 feet. Descent 800 feet, and reach plain of
Fulhad Mahalla, 8^ miles. Road good with two
springs of good water. Heights distant 2 miles
either hand ; lower spurs round and easy. Bear a
little west of west-north-west across plain. At 9
miles cultivation commences ; ravine on right with
a little water. At 10 miles cross ravine ; deep per
pendicular banks, 8 or 10 feet; soil light and
porous alluvium. At 10| miles reach Fulhad
Mahalla. Road passes through village, 200
houses, with gardens. Water from kanai good
and in fair quantity. Thence over plain ; culii-
vation right hand, continuing to 18th mile. At
15 miles cross a green pasture, 3 or 4 square miles
of grass. Leave pasture at 16 miles; hills on
left close in ; valley contracts to i mile. At 19
miles ascend slight elevation, and bend left, bear
ing north-north-west on trees of liusainabad:
total descent 1,100 feet.
Note. —From Fulhad Mahalla one road goes north
east to Mazandaran, Sari, etc.; another to south
east to Tudiwar (?) and Damghan. At 5J miles
from Fulhad Mahalla, road crosses from Tudiwar
(?) to Mazandaran. Water in stream flowing
through valley brackish. Good water in small
quantity at Millu. Village Surkhdeh about half
a mile from camping-ground of Husainabad.
Leave Husainabad and bear north-east over wide onen
P^in At 2i| miles bend easterly round a spur,
and then north-east again. Valley contracted to %
mile; cross brook flowing in high banks ; low
spurs of limestone rock on either hand receding
at easy slope. At 6 miles clear broken ground and

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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)
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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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