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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [317r] (638/739)
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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'O
575
No. 230—
T ehran to T iflis, via Taoriz and Jul fa.
stage.
Names of
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
K bmabks.
one mass of ruins ; it labours under great incon
venience from want of water ; indeed throughout
the whole extent of immense plain, that we
travelled, there was not one natural stream, hnt
many were making. Cf. lioute .No. 222,
stages 4 aud 6, for this and last stage.
l^rom Kasvin the main road is continued as below
SlAHDAHAN
P absin
10
11
A bhab
23
18
114
132
14
146
12
S ain K ala
(village),
S ULTANIA
13
159
22
181
A tolerably thriving village. Excellent broad
road over exiensive plain with villages ; general
direction south-west. Water plentiful.
The road is over a plain with low hills to the north
and a range of very lofty mountains bounding
the remote horizon on the south ; many flourish
ing and populous villages are passed.
At 6 miles Karva, a fair-sized village.
The road goes over a fertile plain with some culti
vation, and intersected by numerous irrigation
drains. Pass village of Nurin at end of the
Kasvin plain. This is the first village in the
Buluk of Hamza, and is 4 miles short of
Abhar.
The road goes through a fertile and well culti
vated plain bounded on both sides, at the
distance of 8, 10 and 12 miles, by lofty moun
tains. Bearing of road north-west. At 3 miles
pass Khurum Dara. Next pass Hia on left ;
grass plentiful, and probably sufficient provisions
for large force. In the neighbourhood of the
Sain Kala are Hedesh and several other villages.
Direction west-north-west.
The road is good, still leading over the same fine
and fertile plain. Sultania is a large half-
ruined place with a palace on a hill. The Shah
used to encamp during the summer months in the
surrounding fertile plain to avoid the hot and
unhealthy climate of Tehran. It was the capital
of the descendants of Hulaku ; now there only
remain some 400 poor families who live in wretch
ed hovels in the vicinity of the tomb of Sultan
Khudabanda, the founder. An earthquake
deprived the inhabitants of water some centuries
ago, and the town was consequently abandoned.
Now there are streams close to Sultania.
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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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