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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [329r] (662/739)
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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599
No, 236— contd,
Turbat-i-Haidari to Nasirabad, via Imrani, Gunahad, fyc.
No.
of
stage,
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
17
18
Taek
Camp by Towee
20i
28
RBMAEKa,
ground at Mirabad is covered with a white efflores-
cence. Reach Tsmailabad ; there is a Jcannf ^ fa +
broad by 8 inches deep, bkckish! b^t s^plieVth
village with drinking water. Iu the village is a
mud fort, the caravansarai. D
At Ismailahad.—^w. 27th, 2 p.m. 9 p.m . 28th,
Bar. ... 26-57" 25-7" 25-7" 7 A " M '
Ther.... 69° 50° 330
Between Kundar and Ismailabad the followine
villages were passed "
Kta. Ali Avas. 30 houses, 3 yoke of oxen
Kushair, 12 houses, 5 yoke of oxen, 50 sheep.
Tutask, 3 houses, 8 yoke of oxen, 2( 0 sheep.
Mirabad, 20 houses, 10 yoke of oxen, 200 sheep
^ma^had, 50 houses, 30 yoke of oxen! foo^beep, 30
Leave Ismailabad and turn off nearly at rMt
angles to road of yesterday travelling about south-
east along foot of the range called here Kuh-i-
Shuruh and further on Kuh-i-Tark. Valley is
bounded on the north-east by the Knh-i-Barun.
Itoad at first level and good, but from 11th mile
the country is rough, the road crossing numerous
projecting spurs and dry watercourses which
gradually become more frequent and more pro
nounced till just before Tark road is quite hilly
Country is covered with scrub jungles, good for
firewood, on this side of valley. In hills are
some stunted trees called " khanjak."
Camp at Tark which is situated at the mouth of
deep ravine with high rocky hills on each side.
It has 150 houses, 50 yoke of oxen, 100 sheep
10 cows, 1 water-mill. The Maliyat is 160
Tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
. Water good and plentiful.
At Tark. —29th November, 2 p.m.
Bar. ... 24*72"
Ther. ... 64°
Leave Tark and descend crossing spurs from hills
diagonally.
Cross a dry river-bed. From here path is narrow
with rocky banks, and would require widening
for troops and guns for one or two hundred
yards.
Follow down another dry river-bed for a quarter
of an hour and then bear more to east, reaching
the village of Shusp at 5J miles. Here are 10
houses, 4 yoke of oxen, 50 sheep, 5 donkeys and
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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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