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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [329v] (663/739)
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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Turbat-i-Haidari to Nasirabad, via Tmrani, Gunahad, fyc.
No.
of
stage.
Distances
iit miles.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Remarks.
2 windmills. A large caravan of camels was
halted here on its way to Bunder Abbas from
Herat. Prom here road continues in a south
easterly direction across valley, descending gently,
and is good going. At 18| miles road becomes
stony. There is a growth of shrubs fit for fire
wood ; cross a dry river-bed at 22 miles.
At 22f miles meet and follow down a river-bed
with a little salt water in it.
Continuing down the stream pass through a gorge
at 23 miles, with a great black hill on the right,
and rocks and mounds on left. At 24 miles the
strata of the rocks is twisted about in the most
extraordinary way. Bed of river is formed of
slabs of conglomerate. At entrance to gorge is
a tiny stream of fresh water from hills on right,
3 inches broad by 1 inch deep, from which it is
advisable to take on water for the next halting-
place.
From here road continues in the same direction, with
spurs on right and mounds and nullahs on left.
Reach a broad river-bed with banks about 12 feet
high. Here is a small stream of brackish water.
No village and no buildings except one ruined
tower. Caravans halt here and the men get a little
shelter from the overhanging rocks of the river-
bank.
At Tower Camp. —1st December, 7 a.m.
Bar. ... 26"62' /
Ther. ... 42°
19
B andan
2,452'.
27 i
385J
Proceeded over flat gravelly plain, bounded on
north by a low range of cliff, and on south by
hillocks close to road. In front are detached
rocky hills. There is somewhat scanty camel
grazing here and no shrubs for firewood. Pass
at 14^ miles an extraordinary shaped hollow
hill, that looks as if it might have been a volcano
standing out by itself on plain, some 5 or 6 miles
off road to left.
Road at 16^ miles becomes very stony. The soil
is sandy and there is plenty of " tagh " shrub.
Passing over a gravel slope, at the bottom of which
is a watercourse on left, reach at 25 miles village
of Zainulabad, a small walled village containing
50 houses, 6 yoke of oxen, 150 sheep, 40 camels,
and 2 windmills. Maliyat 40
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
.
Frontier village of Sistan. From here owing to
the heavy rain the road is bad and the mules
have to wade through soft mud.
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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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