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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [328v] (661/739)
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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598
No. 236— contd.
Tuubat-i-Haidaki to Nasiuabad, via Imrani, Gunalad, fyc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
K emaeks.
15
16
Kundab
ISMAILABAB
22i
2U
287i
At SJ miles pass an ahamhar. Here plain is sandy
and is covered with scanty camel-thorn pasture.
At miles cross a cultivation stream of good water,
3' broad by 6 7 deep, with a swift current.
At lOi miles reach the fair-sized village of Gib cu
riously grouped round a flat clay basin in a
semi-circle in centre of which stands ruin of a mud
tower. Supplies.
Six and-a-half miles beyond Gib pass hamlet of
Alam Khan over a flat good road and 2^
miles further pass an ahamhar. Two miles off
road to left is a low ridge and some 6 miles
off to right is a range of hills.
Eeach Muktaron. This is a large village and the
chief one of the Muktaron ^district. The popula
tion is Arab. Supplies plentiful.
At Muktarorit—l p.m.
Bar. 24-67 7
Ther. 58^°
Leave Muktaron and continue along level plain,
which gradually narrows towards the south-east,
the direction of road.
At 4| miles pass a dry ahamhar.
At 7^ miles reach a mound on the right of road.
At Of miles pass another dry ahamhar.
At 16J miles road begins to ascend and soon after
taking a bend to the right ascends a ravine, and
following it up, reaches little village of Kundur.
Road throughout is good mostly over flat sandy
soil devoid of water or cultivation.
Kundar has 15 houses, 5 yoke of oxen, 100 sheep.
Firewood procurable with difficulty. Village is
situated close under steep hills ; inhabitants are
Arabs.
At Kundar, —Nov. 26th, 9 p.m.
Bar. ... 25*7 7
Ther. ... 35°
Leave Kundar and continue up ravine.
At 2 miles reach the summit. Descend by easy
slope down dry watercourse ; road good.
At 2J miles pass the hamlet of Ali Avas on right,
and a little lower the village of Kushair,
The road leaves the ravine at 5J- miles and mount
ing a spur to right comes out on to open pasture-
covered downs.
The road at 8J miles bears off to west of south and
rounding the Kuh-i-Baghbar descends to village
of Mirabad at 14f miles. Here take on a
supply of fresh water and continue the descent
bearing south-east. From Mirabad a growth of
shrub affords an ample supply of firewood. 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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