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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [316v] (637/739)
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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No. 230.
T ehran to T iflis,
Authority Champ a in ; O oseley j S tewart ; M orier ; M ac G regdr,
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interme-
1 diate.
M ianjub
K aeij
S ankaeabad
N aseabad
S afie- K hoja
H usainabad
K asvin
11
9
13
12
19
11
Tota'.
E smabks.
1^ Road stony but level, over a desert. Hi^h range
of mountains (Alburz) on north. Plenty of
villages at foot- Leave Tehran by Kasvin gate.
Canals from the Karij river at Mianjub. At 8
miles pass Imam Reza. At 9 miles village of
Geldisi, 3 miles on left ; then another called
Kand ; farther on is Alishahabad ; then Sharar.
27 First 4 miles rough and stony. Cross the Karij.by
masonry bridge. Water good.
36 Fine plain on the south ; villages near road ; Sankar*
abad small village. Water plentiful.
49 The road is over a plain, in many places well culti
vated.
61 Road continues ^ood over plain.^ Safir-KhojaJ
is a small village. Water plentiful. There is
said to be a shorter and more difficult road be
tween these places.
80 ! Road is good over the sand plains, on which are 1
scattered some mud village and mounds. Afe
16 miles pass small j)oor village of Abdulabad.
9
Road easy as before over a fertile plain. Kasvin-
is a large ruinous city, once the capital of Persia.
Many vineyards. Plenty of water. Kasvin
is a station on the Indo-European line oi
telegraph. From here to Anzali, 129 mites.
Morier gives an alternative from Karij to Kasvin as follows:—
Kuedan
Gazb-i-Sang
Kishlak
4 K asvin
16
28
15
44
59
Route north 70° west. Seven miles from Karez in a f
large plain is Kamalabad. The road across the
plain being swampy, we chose another to the
ri^ht, and after a ride of 4| hours reached
Kurdan. An immense number of villages in the
plain. Water from a river from which a number
of dykes are cut. Extensive cultivation.
Passed in the plain 5 tumuli or mounds, such a$
are seen on the plains of Troy.
Left at midnight, and came on a bearing west
of our last station. The mountains still bearing
east and west, divided towards the west and ter"
minated in low hills. Many villages.
For about 2 miles before reaching Kasvin, wa
passed by fields and gardens. Kasvin is almost
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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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