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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [318r] (640/739)
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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577
No. 230—
T ehran to T iflis, vi & Tabriz and Julfa.
No.
Distances
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Remabks.
21
Haji Agha
24
355
A good village in fine plain. Water plentiful.
22
Saidabad
16
371
Across a plain ; skirt a small lake ; then over stiff
pass of no great height, and down to Saidabad.
Here the road becomes stony but fairly level into
Tabriz. A few villages near Saidabad.
23
Tabeiz
24
395
Road stony. Plenty of streams. Rich country.
Large flourishing villages near Tabriz.
Ouseley gives the following alternative routes between Zindjan and
Mianeh {A) and between Turkmanchai and Tabriz (Z^).:—
14
Zuerain
15
220
A.
The road is in many places rugged and hilly. At
7 miles cross a deep ravine with water ; at 8 miles
another ; then a fort at foot of mountains. At
11 miles a cluster of three small hills on the
right.
Aemagana
11
231
The road is bad and stony. At 2 miles cross a
deep ravine with water. The mountains on the
right are 1 mile distant; those on the left 9
or 10.
16
Bieundeh ...
18
249
The road goes over many high hills. At 2 miles
ascend a hill; thence the road goes over uneven
country with low hills on both sides.
17
Akkhand
11
260
The road ascends gradually. At 7 miles descend a
small eminence ; then cross a steep hill to the
village. The water here is excellent.
18
Gul Tapa
8
268
The road ascends over steep hills, and is bad over
an uneven country for 4 to 5 miles through ravine
and low hills. The country is partially cultivated,
and is broken into parallel ranges of craggy hills
like petrified breakers.
19
Mianeh ...
20
288
The road crosses the Kafilan Kuh, and beyond it the
Kizil Uzan river, by a bridge of three arches.
The pass of Kafilan Kuh is steep, rather pictures
que and wild, and might easily be defended by a
handful of men. Just before reaching Mianeh,
cross the river by a bridge of twenty-one arches*
B.
The road is through a country with low hills on
both sides. There is a stream of excellent water
here.
20
Kaea Chaman
13
324
I'd
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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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