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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [313v] (631/739)
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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56S
No. 2^8— contd.
Tehran to Masfiad, via KisJilak, Samnan, 8fc,
D istances
ik mtlbs.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
»
E bmaekb.
23
Bagh-i-shah
24
25
Shaeifabad
Mashad
20
28
21
523 h
23
The following is an alternative from page 23 :—
Nishabnr is about 2 miles in circumference, includ
ing an ark (or inner fort), which presents a for-
midable appearance from the outside, but con-
tains little more than a heap of ruins. Town
in decayed state, and bazaars very indifferent.
Eoad good and passable to q11 arms. First through
cultivated ground. At 2 miles village on right:
then over plain. At U miles fresh water stream.'
At 15 miles village away from road on left. Road
now over open ground amidst cultivation. At 16
miles village of Kadamgah (post-house and sarai)
on left. At 16| miles crosses fresh stream ; thence
over many shallow, dry and level watercourses.
Good camping-ground ; firewood ; water ; about
20 houses.
Road fair and passable to all arms, except after
heavy rain, when some of the streams crossed would
be^ impassable for guns. The route vid Dehrud
said to be iruch worse than this, but see alterna
tive below and foot-note. At about 19 miles pass
ruined fort on right ; water from kanat ; at 26J
miles reach a tower, hence road branches off ricrht
to Beyandand another right to Sharifabad, 400
yards right of road; about 70 houses ; sarai j
chaparkhanah.
Road good and passable to all arms : in some places
gradients steep and road slippery. Water plenti
ful on the way. At about 14 miles the Gudar-i-
Sipah Salar is left; then over undulations and
finally across open cultivated plain with occa-
sional gardens, and villages on right. Water
abundant and good ; supplies plentiful.
Wells makes 76 miles the total distance from stage
22.
Connects with Section III, Central Asian Routes^
24
Deh Rub
Camp "The Wil
lows."
23
14
498i
Direction for 18 miles east by south, the rest east.
Road throughout good. First 18 miles over
Nishabur plain, passing numerous villages amidst
cultivation. After that pass between low mounds
and ascend stony hillskirt. The best encamp
ment is to the left of the road. Deh End contains
500 houses, but there are not more than 60 fami
lies in the place. Water along road at inter
vals, at camp good and plentiful. Supplies pro-
curauic.
Direction north-east. Road narrow, rocky and
steep, utterly impracticable for guns, or even
28 m iles . Meshed 24 miles^andf AmalkslhattLsfstage/a^tSvefled bvM^ Kada ?h gah ^ 0ut 18 milef3 ' Sharifa bad
road, aud Preferable to other alternatives. travelled by him, were the continuation of the level rock
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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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