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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [327v] (659/739)
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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506
No. 236— conM*
Turbat-i-Haidari to Nasirabad, vjd Imrani, Gunalad^ fye.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
ik miles.
ebmaee3,
Interme
diate.
Total.
11
Biejanb ...
4,777'.
m
216J
At 12| miles cross and follow up the bed of a salt
river.
At 13i miles a road cuts in from Afriz. Conti-
nue up bed of river down which run, a few small
streams, through a great quantity of saline deposit,
and after crossing and re-crossing pass the Robat-i-
Asaf. Caravansarai here still in good repair and has
stabling accommodation, but there are no supplies.
Eeaeh Kala Yusuf. Eoad from about half-way
slightly ascending between hills fairly good going.
The farsakh here seems to be about 5 miles.
This is a very small village ; only 3 houses and 3
yoke of oxen. Supplies consequently very
limited. There is a Icarez of drinkable water.
At Kala Yusuf, —Nov. 19th, 7 a. M.
Bar. ... 25 3°
Ther. 53°
Leave Kalat-i-Yusuf and continuing the ascent,
follow up river-bed till from here, road takes a
bend southwards, river continuing south-east.
Pass some detached hills and spurs of the moun
tains on both sides of road.
At 6| miles reach the summit of pass by path with
easy gradients, but which would require widening
for troops. The heights could be crowned. ^
At 10| miles emerge from the pass, Godar-i»Cha-
haoz and change direction to the south-east,
crossing low spurs running out into v&lley of
Birjand, just below the pass is a small stream of
fresh water at the Kalat-i-Chahaoz.
Reach Birjand. Camp on the north side of the town
by a brackish stream.
Fresh water lias to be fetched from the other side of
the town.
Birjand contains 1,850 houses, and owns 100 yoke
of oxen, 20,000 sheep, 1,000 camels, 1,000 cows.
It has 2 mills, 3 mosques, 5 caravansarais, 250
shops, 4 hammams. The number of yokes of oxen
must include other villages as there is not much
cultivation round Birjand town.
For further description of Birjand, vide Gazetteer
of Persia.
At Birjand. —Nov. 22nd, 7 a.m. Nov. 23r^
2 p . m.
Bar. 25-7 Bar. ... 49^
Ther. ... 28° Ther. ... 49j 0
Nov. 24th, 7 a.m.
Bar. 25'15"
Ther. ... 32°
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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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