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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎330v] (665/739)

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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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602
No. 236— concl/t.
Turbat-i-Haidari to Nastrabad, via Imrani, Gunahad, fyc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interne-
diate.
E bmaeks.
Total.
vast bed of reeds round the southern edge. Water
and reeds stretch away to east and south as far
as the eye can see.
Reach Earing, a small camping-ground, only 4
feet above level of surrounding country. There
are a few clumps of tamarisk here and on left is
a regular curved gravelly beach, and beyond it is
the mud basin of the lake. The water is at pre
sent a mile off, and is considered rather low.
During floods the ground all round here is inun
dated. Water has to be fetched from the lake*
bed. No habitations.
At Baring —December 4th.
Bar, M . 28-7*
Ther. ... 56°
21
Nasieabad
1,338'.
241
441
Leave Baring and bear straight on to Kuh-i-Khwa*
ja over bare mud, which luckily is not of a very
sticky nature. The Kuh-i-Khwaja is a low detach
ed hill rising up out of the swamp.
Thence road takes a bend eastwards and enters
a bed of reeds. Follow this cutting through
reeds under difficulties owing to soft mud and the
enormous depth of the ruts made by pack
animals, side by side.
Lose the track and strike across bare mud in direc*
tion of Afzalabad, a village with 50 houses. From
here ground is rough and lumpy with low tama
risk scrub. It is a few feet higher than the mud,
and is not liable to inundation.
From Afzalabad bear straight on Nasirabad easily
recognisable by its fort from the surrounding
villages.
Reach Nasirabad.
At Nasirabad~~
Air Ther. ... 58°.

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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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