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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎312r] (628/739)

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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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565
No. 2£8— contd.
T ehran fo M ashad, via KiMak, Samnan, See.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
14
M iandasht
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
24
15
Abbasabad
Total.
314
20
334
E emabks,
stream under five palm trees. Supplies procur-
able but not abundant. Commencino* from
Armian, some 12 miles from Khairabad" a suc
cession of villages is passed at the foot of the
hills on the right. Maiomai is a flourishing place
surrounded by mulberry trees and corn-fields
with a good sarai and good water. Number of
fortified villages in the valley.
Direction to Zaidar S.E. by S. After that E.S.E.
l H irst o and last 4 miles level and good : centre
part rough, undulating and stony. As far as
Zaidar, road hugs the hills bounding the valley
or plain to south ; beyond the country slopes to N
draining into the Jajarm valley. At 4 miles
pass large village Ibrahimabad on left. At a
stream with trees on left, which crosses road 1
mile further on, flowing from right. At 6J cross
another stn am, on which stands fort of Zaidar
on edge of a wide ravine; a watch-tower on right.
Beyond the fort are some trees and a Jcarez, but
no cultivation; the fort is generally garrisoned
by 50 Sarbaz. At 7J miles enter defile, and
continue among stony hills for three hours. At
10| miles a very stony, narrow, and difficult ridge.
At 11 miles a stony and difficult descent through
defile. Cross dry bed of torrent at 12i miles,
and another at 13|; thence undulating till 17th
mile, where is another dry bed. At 18 miles a
gradual descent into a more level plain. At 19
miles a gentle ascent. At 20 miles enter an
elevated plain, whence i?arai is visible. No village
here, but sarai is fortified and contains 30 resident
families ; post-house ; new sarai, a very fine build
ing. Water (from harez and well) brackish.
No supplies. The great plain called Kavir is
covered with pasture and dotted with Turkoman
towers. Miandasht is situated at the junction of
several roads, namely, the two roads from Astra-
bad, one vid Abar Kuh, the other via Shahrud,
and the road from Khan-i-Khudi, which pro
bably runs on to Turut.~( Vaughan)
E. Eoad good and passable to all arms \ first over
undulations, then over more or less broken coun
try, and finally over a level bed ; pass several
good streams ; at 11} miles enters defile (Dahana
A1 Hak) after leaving A1 Hak village ; at 18
miles tower on left. Large sarai, 100 houses,
post-house ; water plentiful; supplies scarce!
Hence good road to Biarjumand, one stage.

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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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