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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [335v] (675/739)
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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612
No. 240.
Y azd to K hur, via
Authority — M ac G regor.
No.
D istances
IN" MILKS.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
B e MASKS.
1
A njieak ,,,
22
• • •
About 2 miles after leaving Yazd by the Narjini
Kala, perfect desert is reached of heavy sand.
About 4 miles road crosses a ridge of hard sand]
and thence to Haoz-i-Jafar, 10 miles from Yazd',
is a succession of hard sand and gravel ridges'
and heavy soft sand hollows. Water is good
(from two ahamhars) at Haoz-i-Jafar. Eoadthen
enters the hills seen north of Yazd, and ascends
very gradually over stones and gravel up a valley
enclosed by steep, rugged and bare hills on either
side. At 6 miles (from Haoz-i-Jafar) a river-bed
is crossed, and then there is an almost imper
ceptible rise to the watershed between this valley
and the next. The road then descends very easily
to^ Anjirak, the general direction of the march
being north-north-east and north-east, and the
distance not far short of 22 miles.
2
K haeanak
23
45
Road leaves Anjirak in a direction of 25°, and at
1 mile passes the old sarai and an ahamhar. It
then ascends easily over the neck of a hill for 1|
miles, and descends very easily over gravel for
1 mile, when it follows an open valley running
east and west. At miles it passes the Haoz-
i-Sufed, which is in ruins, and has no water. 4J
miles onward it goes through a low gravel ridge,
and shortly after passes another old haoz with
no water. At 13J miles it enters another low
gravel ridge, and, passing on the left the road to
the well of Chah-i-Nao (2 miles off, with water),
it ascends by an easy gradient to the top of a
ridge in 2J miles. Next it descends very gradual
ly over gravel, through a sort of plateau, and
arrives after 7 more miles at Kharanak. The
water-supply here is good, and there is an excel
lent sarai; but supplies are scarce. There is no
village nearer to Kharanak than Saugand on the
north or Ardakan about 45 miles to the west on
a bearing of 255°.
The road from Kharanak descends at once into the
^ a ^ ne the same name, and goes through a
( ~®™ low hills on either side for 8 miles.
At the 4th mile there is some water. It then
goes oyer a plain of gravel for 8 miles to the
aoz-i-Buland, where, however, there is no water,
and tor 5 miles more to the Haoz-i-Mian-i-Tak
(no water). It then ascends very gradually for
miles to Rizab, where good shelter is procurable
ut no supplies, and only indifferent water.
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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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