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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [311r] (626/739)
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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563
No. 228— contd.
T ehran to M ashad, rid Kishlak, Samnan, Sfc,
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Eemakes.
10
Tak
11
D eh M ullah.,
10
201
237
enter another plain about 2 miles wide ; soil sand
and gravel, and surface covered with boulders, and
cut up bj small watercourses bearing north-east.
At miles bend east-north-east with valley. At
lljmiles low spurs of hills on either sideclosein,
road bending north-east. At llf miles road to
Damghan strikes off right. At 15| miles cross
stream again and leave it flowing east; proceed
north-east by east. At 16 miles reach slight eleva
tion and sight village and gardens of Astana to
right in barren rocky glen, and Chashma-i-Ali, a
sacred grave and spring. Supplies at Astana^
water ample.
Leave Chashma-i-Ali bearing south ; cross stream f
ascend 150 feet, easy slope, and descend to village
of Astana» At 1 mile road passes through village
and gardens, stony ; clear village at 1| miles, and
cross stream flowing left, i .e., east. Thence bearing
a little south of south-east road passes through cul
tivation, hills commanding at distance of J mile on
both hands. At 2| miles recross stream and follow
through cultivation to 3 miles, skirting hills on
left. At 4 miles old fort of Baba Hafiz and gar
den ; road stony and country undulating. At
miles low hills with old fort left. At 7| iniles
hills recede on left; and at S miles gardens and
spur of hills touch road on right; gardens
watered by Chashma-i-AIi stream. Two mud
forts of Ayaun two miles to right, under skirt of
mountain, hills on left 1 mile off. At 9 miles
hills of red clay on left approach, and road passes
some old mud ruins ; bear east. At 9| miles road
bends right, and hills close in ; stream right; road
undulating but passable for guns. At 9| miles
road to Damyhan turns off right front, hills on
right recede, hills left commanding road. At 11|
miles valley opens out, hills on left recede, bearing
east-north-east. At 16 miles cross small stream
and bear south.; road bends left, east again. At
2 miles right, village of Ghazi, large gardens and
enclosures. At 19 miles village of Tak, 15QhouseSj
small stream of water and supplies ; good ground
for camping.
General direction north-west; road level. Pass -vil
lage of Beg, 100 houses; hills left, distant 4 miles.
At 2 miles stream flowing to Husainabad
2 miles right. At 4 miles join main road to
Shahrud, which bends left. Cross road to Ibra-
liimabad strikes off right; road stony. Thence
along main road.
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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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