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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [320v] (645/739)
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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582
No. 231— contd.
Tun to Blrjand, via Sarian, Afris, 8fc.
No,
of
stage.
D istances
in miles.
bemabks.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
here village, water, supplies : whence on 2 far-
sakhs. Sarian, large village under hill; water,
every one farsakh.
2
D astaiud
17
38
The road ascends gently over plain, with high
chain on left, all through cultivation, with f haoz'
at every 1 farsakh. In two places a canal crosses
the road ; at 4 farsakhs the hills from road con
tract the plain somewhat. After passing on the
road a small village, the road descends a little to
Dastabad. Thence another road (1) Muham-
madabad, (2) Chahak, (3) Robat-Asadulu, (4)
Birjand.
3
Afbis
26
%
66
The road goes over a plain not far from mountains
on left, which at some distance send out a spur.
In the plain itself is a group of isolated hills
opposite, but not connected with it, or with an
other much more distant and much lower chain
on left. To left is large village of Tighab, and
on ri^rht, farther up, Dasht, near the cross range.
This plain is of sandy, dry soil, with much cul
tivation at first, but it then becomes saline. On
reaching the cross group of hills, 3 farsakhs, salt
vegetation disappears; after passing two of these,
beyond third is village of JVIianjub. The plain still
ascending narrows here, and in 2 long farsakhs
farther, are more isolated hills at foot of which
Afris, a large village. Water; supplies.
4
A fzalabad
i
24
90
The road turns a little more south and^ goes
among the hills, at foot of which Atris lies,
ascending at first gently through a wide valley
which gradually becomes narrower and steeper,
to undulating ground, whence it descends pretty
sharply into a wide plain, a continuation of Tun
plain. At 2 farsakhs farther on village of
Chahak far to right, and at 3 farsakhs the plain
ends. The road then mounts a ridge of cross
running hills (behind which are seen a similar
ridge, and behind it high range of Bagiran) which
appear to extend from east to west and connect
ranges on right and left with each other. At 4
farsakhs come to a hollow ravine with peculiar
saline vegetation, and then continue on between
higher hills to little village of Shir, all the water
of which is saline ; then on through curious water-
worn salt clay hills, very barren, to larger village
of Kundur : then upwards among ranges of hills
to the salt-encrusted bed of the Dilu-Cham-
Shur, through which a very rapid, though not
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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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