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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [332v] (669/739)
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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606
No. 237— concld!.
Turbat-i-Haidaki to Tun, via Jumain and Kalat.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istakces
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
R bmabks.
T un
4,300'.
16
14B
Road graduallj deseends the whole way to Tun.
At first it leads over a barreu plain ; at 1J miles
a stream of brackish water from the east runs^
along the road, watering fields and gardens which,
are called Gachabad^
At 4| miles, a mill half a mile to east of road,
brackish stream being diverted to work it. About
the same distance to the west of road a hamlet
or series of hamlets called Kalata Haji-Mirza
Muhammad. At 5 miles haoz (empty).
At 6 to 9 miles Baghistan-i-Ballada consisting
of enormous orchards stretching for 3 miles aloug
road and averaging half a mile in width. It is
watered by a stream coming from west, which
passes through a mill at top of the gardens.
Height, 4J900'. From this point Boro, about 8^
miles, and Nanstanach, about 10 miles distant, are
visible to the west. Then cultivation continues
to Tun.
At 111 miles mill to east of road.
At 12 miles re-crosses stream at a garden called
Bagh-i-Arsai J awa.
At 12| miles Baghis v an-i-Tum
At 14 miles haoz with water.
At 16 miles Tun, a walled town perhaps IJ
miles across, mostly filled with cultivation and
ruins, but a size larger than Jumain. The town
is governed by Mirza Ghulam Khan, aged 25,
son of the governor of Tabas. The bazaar is
very poor, not even producins: potatoes or onions.
Population from 4,000 to 5,000.
Although this route is apparently not used for
through traffic, from a military point of view, it
offers a very good alternative route to that
Bajistan. With the exception of the Kotal-i-
Kalat, which is even now passable for artillery,
the road is remarkably good for all arms, being,
as a rule, very hard. As regards water, the only
stretch without an abundant supply is from
Jangalto Bimurgh, some 24 miles. Elsewhere
there is a practically unlimited supply. Firewood
and forage are also abundant as also all supplies,
as both Tun, Jumain and Turbat are situated ia
very fertile districts.
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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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