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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [330r] (664/739)
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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76
601
No. 236—
TcaBATi-i-HAiDAEi to Nasirabad, vid
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
B aring
1,430'.
31
416*
HEMilBKS,
At 27* miles ent^r a defile between two hiils—that
on left about 300 feet high, a perpendicular wall
ot rock, while bill on right is lower and not so
steep. The river runs through here, generally
nearly dry, but to-day there is a good stream of
brackish water, 15 feet broad. The banks are of
earth and perpendicular, from 12 to 20 feet high.
Just beyond mouth of defile is a small mud fort,
about 60 yards square with four towers at the
corners. The walls are about 1 foot thick. This
is Bandan. In front is a grove of palm-trees.
Camp alongside fort.
Bandan has 70 houses, 10 yok of oxen, 500 sheep,
. monkeys, 10 jaribs of date-palms. The malivat
is about 100
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
.
At Bandan. — December 2nd, 2 p.m . December
3rd, 7 a.m.
Bar. 27-78"
Ther. 44°
27*81*
52°
Heavy rain during night. Leave Bandan in a
heavy Scotch mist; at 3* miles cross river; banks
here sloping and about 8 feet high. Breadth of
river, 30 feet.
At 6 miles country becomes slightly undulating
with shrubs here and there fit for firewood, but
hardly any camel grazing. Cross the river at 6|-
miles and again at 9J miles. At this spot, left
bank is about 30 feet high where the plain has a
higher level. There is said to be a spring here
of fresh water at times, but it is at present
choked up and there is only the river water.
At 12 miles a range of hills is visible oil either
side of road about 4 miles off on right and 6
miles off on left.
At 15J miles pass an open reservoir built of stones
and cement, now out of repair. Camel grazing
is more plentiful here.
At 23i miles get the first sight of the Hamun
a lake with low mounds on this side of it, and a
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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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