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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [319v] (643/739)
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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580
No. 230—contd.
Tehran to Tiplts, vid
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Xnterme-
diate.
Total.
Remakks.
32 E bivan
27
612
gap of Sharur and keeps to the foot of the hills
to Sadrek, where he halted.
The road is quite good and fit for driving. It ^
through an extensive tract of fertile land called
Germ from the river of that name.. On the left
ot the road pass the monastery of Virab.
Here is a large Russian cantonment.
Morier makes a stage at Akbash.
Of the road from Julfa to Tiflis, Champain gives the following account
From Julfa to Nakjivan (a large town of some
importance) the road is fair, but unmetalled.
1 be distance occupies five or six hours in a
carnage.
From Nakjivan to Erivan the road is also uume-
talled, hut not bad: 140 versin = 100 miles,
Alany good stanzias or post-houses intervene.
J^nvan is a large and important garrison town
rull view of Mount Ararat.
Seventy^, or about 42 miles from Erivan is
I an ^ .the way from Erivati
tj j IS roa( ^ 38 me i a ^ed and excellent.
Indeed over the Dilijan pass, the ascents and
aescents have been engineered with great skill
i hence oyer the Dilijam the roads wind through
exceedingly beautiful and richly-wooded ravines.
Water and supplies everywhere. Near TMis the
country iTecomes rather dreary, b':t the road
continues excellent.
■^ uss ^ n ' n Caucasus, on
the Kur, can be reached from Juifa iu three days
and three nights, if the weather be and if
the post horses are to be had without much delay
m changing, which is not always the case.
From Tiflis to Poti, on the Black Sea, takes 18
hours by rail. There is a break half-way at the
. lllain > P ass j where 30 versts or so have to be done
in cainages. Otherwise the entire journey should
not occupy more than 12 hours. From Poti
Odessa 1 eUj eT 60 ^^ ^' ons ^ au ^ uo P^ e » ^ ie Crimea,
0 |.i 0 urney from the Russo-Persian
lontier station Julfa to Tiflis is 450 versts=m
ln r0 Tl nuni ^ ers ' I am unable to give
Thp<3P cM-* ? jailer post stations on the road.
enZ h^T! (wl ?f re horses al ^ys be pro-
44 narlarn-rL 6 ^ aVe ^ ers Provided with the necessary
lo'm^t 11 ' 0r ; 0rder ") usua lly from 8 to
lo miles apart, and they offer fair shelter.
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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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