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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [328r] (660/739)
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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597
No. 236— contd.
Turbat-i-Haidari to Nasieabad, vioi Jmrani, Gunahad, fyc'.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
IN MILES.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Remabks.
12
Eikat
13
Gul
14
Muktaeon
13-1
22
229
Noie, —This is not the most direct route.
Leave Birjand and follow down the dry bed of the
river called the Ab-i-Sil in a westerly direction.
At 4f miles leave river-bed and bear off to village of
Husenabad on left front.
From 4f miles direction is sonth-west. Sonth of Bir
jand, between that and Husenabad, are number of
villages dotted about the bare, stony valley. Eoad
now skirts base of the Kuh-i-Bakaran, a mass of
high mountains. The highest point estimated
roughly at about 12,500 feet.
At SJ miles road crosses projecting spurs and is stony.
At 115 miles meet and follow up dry watercourse
to lower Rikat, a small village, situated opposite
a great perpendicular cliff. Here watercourse
divides. Take the left arm and reach upper
Rikat and camp.
Supplies in small quantities. Water plentiful.
At Rikat, —Nov. 24th, 9 p. M.
Bar. ...
Ther. ...
25'14' /
36°
264|
Leave Bikat. From here foot-path leads over
mountains straight to Gul, but is not practicable
for baggage animals. Take road due south fol
lowing up a water course.
At 2f miles pass a tiny stream, 3 inches deep by 9
inches wide, flowing down the watercourse. Eoad
is stony and ascends slightly.
At 6} miles complete ascent and enter a very car-
row gorge with precipitous sides. Bar. 24*86 7 .
Ther. 56° (10-55 a. m.) Here are blocks of green
rock and also of a chocolate rock in which are
white veins. From here road descends by easy
gradients, but pathway is narrow and strewn
with boulders.
At 7i miles pass the hamlet of Khatiru and turn
eastwards over projecting spurs from the Baka-
ran.
Reach large village of Gul. Supplies and water in
abundance.
At <2wZ.—Nov. 25th 2 p.m. 7 a.m.
Bar. ... 24-98 7 24-96 v
Ther. ... 57° 311°
Leave Gul, and proceed south-east over barren plain,
sloping gently from the Bakaran to the centre
of the valley some miles to right. Ground is cut
into ridges by numerous dry watercourses.
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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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