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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [319r] (642/739)
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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579
No. 230— contd.
Tehran to Tiflis, via Tabriz and Julfa,
No.
Names of stages.
Distances
in miles.
of
stage.
Interme.
diate.
Total.
Rbmabks.
24
SUFIAN
*• ♦
24
419
The road is generally good over a flat country, but
crosses a river and irrigation drains frequently.
Sufian is a poor village, but there is plenty of
water. Supplies procurable.
25
Marand
• §«
18
co
Road good but hilly ; crosses numerous rivulets.
At 9 miles pass ruined caravansarai ; then
descend into the plain of Maranck Marand, ac
cording to Champain, is the finest village in all
Persia. Rich gardens and plantations. Sur
rounding plains well cultivated. Water abundant.
26
27
Airandjbi
G argair
ttt
• • •
20
20
457
477
An immense collection of hovels, short of which
are some good villages ; road over grand level
plains. Nineteen miles pass ruined caravansarai
of Zal. (Irandara ?)
28
Julfa
• • •
13
490
The road in 8 miles from Gargar reaches the Aras
river, here crossed by a ferry, hence it goes over a
parched and barren country for 3 miles, and then
descends by a bad hilly road to Julfa (telegraph
station). By latest map Gargar is only some 8
miles from ferry. Champain, who made Airan-
dibi his last stage, counts 20 miles thence to
Julfa. Road stony and bad, runs down a ravine
by side of a swift stream till 5 miles or 6 miles
short of Julfa. Julfa is a small place on each
side of the Araxes. Persian post-house and offices
on the S.; Russian station with a governor and
custom-house on the N. Araxes or Aras crossed
here by a ferry. Passport very essential. From
Julfa one can take a carriage on to Tiflis. This
route is occasionally infested by robbers. One
should always inquire, and ride in the daytime.
MacGregor makes it only 78 miles from Tabriz to Julfa
29
N akjivan
27
507
The road is very good and practicable for driving,
but is intersected by many streams, which are
bridged. 81 miles to Bayazid, see Route No. 160.
Here is a Russian cantonment.
SO
Dudangah ...
40
547
The road, which is quite good the whole way, goes
for 2 miles through the ruins of Nakjivan; it
then lies over the magnificent plain of Chaman-i-
Sharur. Morier makes a stage at Hok and
another at Narashin.
31
D avali; ...
28
575
The road is over a parched and barren plain, but is a
good driving road the whole way. Morier went
by a road which leaves the main road after the
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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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