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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [334r] (672/739)
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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609
No. 239— contd.
Y azd £0 K ashan vici Akda, Nain s and Ardistan,
No.
of
stage.
D istances
in miles.
B emabzs.
Names of stages.
[nterme-
diate.
Total.
Hajiabad. At 10 miles came abreast of Ard-
janun.a large village some 3 miles to west; whilst
to east, at about same distance lay Shokullah and
the shrine of Sarjid Nuridin ; at 12| miles sarai
of Ohafta, which has bad water (and is much
too small to merit large type on a map). # Upon
quitting Ohafta, road becomes stony for the first
time since leaving Yazd. At 14 miles hamlet
of Chafta, and at 18 miles crossed the telegraph
line near a of sweet water; at 19J miles
hamlet of Charafzul some 2 miles to east and at
20| miles village of Bhagird, the property of the
Vizier of Yazd, and the best silk-producing
village in district; at 22 miles, Akda, a small
town with huge sarai. Inhabitants seemed very-
poor, and complained bitterly of the tyranny of
the Vizier.
4
Nao Gumbaz
. 4,149'.
25
80
Skirting town of Akda, at 2| miles Shahrabad to
east of road with Khalilabad and Mazr-i-iNao to
west of road. At 5 miles a haoz of sweet water,
and at 10 miles Husenabad, a sarai, and small
village in fort. This was the last good water
untifNain. At 13J miles a haoz of salt water
and a dreary waste of desert, until at 25 miles,
reach sarai and post-house of Nao Gumbaz.
Small amount of supplies are procurable, but the
water is undrinkable for man, and horses also
refused to touch it.
6
Nain
3,888'.
16
96
At 3 miles village of Allahabad, and at 5| miks
Bambiz Bala, both some distance to west of ^ tracu.
At 11 miles Shumsabad and Kurd, some distance
to east of road. At 11| miles hamlet of Kala Nao,
with a kanat of brackish water. At 14 miles
Bambiz Pain and Shamshabad to west of road. At
15 miles Mahal Nain, and at 16 miles the small
town of Nain. At Nain the Isfahan road
branches off, which the telegraph wire follows.
6
Naistanak ...
5,721'.
17
113
Skirting the considerable township and upon em-
ergino* out of town see two hamlets Mazra-i-
Shah^and Muhammadi, some 2 miles to west and
east respectively of road. Thence forward the
usual desert, passing a dry at 4 miles. At 7
miles gardens are visible under the distant Kuh-i-
Katanz, which being snow -tipped at this season
of year must be at least 8,000 feet high. At Sj
miles a haoz of sweet water and at 10, miles
Mubammadabad. At 14 miles a fort and garden
* See I. D. t W. 0. Map.
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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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