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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [339v] (683/739)
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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620
No. 243— contd.
Y azd to M ashad, vid Kharanak, Pusht-i-Badam, fye*
No.
of
■tage.
Names of stages.
D istancks
fsr MILES.
E E MABKS o
Interme'
diate.
Total,
4
— i
Robat-i-Khan
3,140'.
38
146
last haoz has come to an end, and now bFoken
rough ground extends 3 or 4 miles to right, to base
of a rugged red mountain that gives the name to
the Gudar. On left are lumps of black limestone
veined with quartz. Road runs close under
these, and ascends a dry watercourse, the lime
stone lumps becoming larger, till they are good-
sized hills. After this, road winds about amongst
low hills on both sides, and the summit of
the Gudar-i-Surkh (the red pass) is gained at 281-
miles. Altitude 4,890'.
Road now descends a dry watercourse; fn some
places impracticable for wheeled artillery, as the
track is narrow with steep banks on each side
but these are of clay, and it would be easy for a
few men to make a road. Road winds about in a
general N. N. E. direction with clay mounds on
both sides, descending the dry bed cf a water
course. Further on the country gets more open r
but still there are hills close on both sides'
Road stony in places.
At 31 miles catch sight of Pusht-i-Badam.
Valley, that has been descended, now opens out into
plain. Road at first is near the mountains on
left; but the JRobat lies near a spur from those
on right. From the Gudar, road at first descends
somewhat more steeply than generally; but sooir
there is the usual gentle gradient. Plain is
about 3 miles wide.
At 36 miles the villages of Mazra-Bala and Haji-
abad lie close under the hills on left about a mile*
away.^ One of these villages has a tower. They
both lie close together.
At 37 miles arrive at the caravansarai or Rohat of
Pusht-i-Badam. This is a good building ot
brick, new, and in good order. The village has
200 houses. There is a good amount of cultiva*
tion and good water, ^ee Index.
amoil g low hills i then down
the bed of watercourse, about 100 yards wide,
xioaa gently descending with a high hill close
on ett, and a mountain away on the right, about
a 4- ^ -i Itoad is stony, but fairly good,
miles Shorab. Here are half a dozen houses, a
ower, a very small patch of cultvation, a few-
trees, and one or^ two dejected-looking dwarf date
L!f-u\ here is somewate: f and, though it is
very salt, horses will drink it.
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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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