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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [316r] (636/739)
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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573
Ko. 229— concld.
T ehran to S ari ; via Damavand, Firuzkuh and Skirgah.
No.
Distances
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
fntevme-
diate.
Total.
Remabks,
mountains. From Firuzkuh a road leads to
Veramin by a stream.
4
Talae Kudbae
28
92
The road goes over a plain for 5 miles, when a
ruined sarai is reached ; and a^ain by an easy
ascent for 6 miles to the Caravansarai-Gaduk. It
then descends for ^ mile, and forests appear, the
road narrowing and becoming very difficult, when
it goes over steep mountains, or in the bed of the
river covered with boulders, the hills on both sides
being covered with jungle. At 18 miles reach
some huge rocks, called Khana-i-Dev-i-Sufed:
neai this is the dilapidated sarai of Surkhrobat.
Beyond, at 4 miles come to Doab f at the junction
of two streams; and 4 miles farther to Talar
Rudbar.
5
zlrab
16
108
The l*oad goes along the river Talar for 6 miles,
and is in many places execrable j then crosses it by
the Ful-i-Sufed a bridge of two arches. Thence
it is very difficult indeed over a rugged path, up
and down steep hills through chasms between
rocks, crossing the Talar at least twenty times,
and frequently passing morasses where horses
sink to the saddle girth.
6
Shirgah
•
1
18
126
The road still continues by the Talar river, fre
quently crossing it for the first 9 miles along
Shah Abbas's causeway, completely broken
up, and is very difficult indeed. At 7 miles arrive
at the S'ar-i-Kala, a frightfully difficult ascent,
up which animals cannot go without being reg
ularly dragged up. Thence the road continues
equally bad by Mian-i-Kala, through magnificent
forest to Shirgah. The road is execrable, some
times on a, level with the stream, sometimes as
cending 500 to 600 feet above. Several torrents
are crossed by good bridges. At 22 miles the
road becomes more level and the hills recede.
7
Aliabad
10
136
The road commences very bad, going through a
most beautiful country on the right bank of
the Talar for 8 miles, when this river is crossed.
At 7 miles ascend a well-wooded hill; thence road
to Barfarush.
8
Sari
16
152
The road is much better, but at 3 miles the cause
way disappears, and travellers have to go as best
they can through the fields. See Index.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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