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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [339r] (682/739)
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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No, 2^3— contd.
Yazd to Mashad, via Kharanak, Pusld-i- Bad am, fyc.
Ko.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
•
of
stage.
Interme
diate.
Total.
E bmabks,
is new and good, water also good. There is some
cultivation, but not to a great extent. Supplies
can be purchased. On the south-east the ground
slopes down to another bare and rather salt plain,
bounded by mountains, some 5 or 6 miles distant.
To the north, to the north-west and north
east there is nothing but broken hills visible.
MacGregor makes the distances to Rizab and J Suk-
and, 29 and 11 miles, as compared with 24J and
estimated above«
3
Pctsht-i-Badam
3;8U0'.
-•
•
37
108
Starting from Sukand, road is over a plain, in
some places rather rough, and crosses a gully
here and there, one of which is about 20' deep ;
but wheeled artillery might go over the whole.
In some places road goes over clay, which would
be sticky in wet weather; but the bits are short,
and the road generally is very good. It gradually
, leaves the mountains on the left, and approaches
some low broken hills. On the left there is broken
ground all about. The plain is covered with
tufts. At llf miles halt at a haoz, where the
water is muddy and deficient in quantity ; hence
road descends steadily, but easily, to Illahabad,
which is reached at 14| miles. Here is a ruined
fort and tumble-down caravansarai; no people,
no houses, no cultivation, no water. Eoad
which up to h^ere has been, though tolerably
straight, over broken and rough ground with
hills on both sides, now enters a plain sloping
down from both sides to the centre. It is ex
tremely salt, and there is a great efflorescence.
At 18 mites reach the bottom by a gentle descent
altitude 3,490'. Plain is gravelly and jcovered
with tuft.
At 19f miles haoz, in which there is water cover
ed with an inch of scum and filth. Start as
cending gently and easily, towards the mountains
that bound the plain on the north. Koad hard
and good.
At 23 miles the road enters the mountains. There
are low black hills half a mile to the left. Road
still continues to ascend rapidly, and is gradually
enclosed by hills on both sides.
At 24f miles is a haoz containing very good cold
water. A low jagged black hill is now close on
Atl^miles altitude is 4,610'. Beyond this the
ascent is even more gentle than before, being
only 100' per mile. The black hill on right near
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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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