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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [340v] (685/739)
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. 243— confd,
JTazd to Mash ad, via Kharanalc, Pushf-i- Bad am, fyc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istvncbs
in milks.
Interne- , .
diate. ^otal.
Ebmabks.
Jafa Rrr or
tababad.
3,290'.
Ja-
29
175
28 miles the road finally emerges from the sand
on to hard ground. The road through ' the
sand has been fairly level with slight ascents
and descents, some rather steep. Now it begins
to ascend regularly but gently. At 29 miles a
tank of salt water. Horses drink it freely. The
road now 7 gradually enters the hills.
At 34 miles the bla^k hill on the left comes to an
end, and the plain extends in that direction to
the horizon. There are black hills on the ritrht,
I mile distant. At 35 miles road ascends "the
stony bed of a dry watercourse, and is comple-
tely enclosed by hills. There are one or two
sandy bits, but generally it is hard and firm to*
Robat-i-Khan. At 38 miles, Kobat-i-Khan,
there is a good new caravansarai with a fine hadgir
or wind tower; also the remains of an old car-
avansarai. There is a fort, a few houses, a small
patch of cultivation, and one or two very small
date palms. The water is brackish, but there
is fresh water at a distance of about a mile.
Supplies of straw, grain and fowls.
Road steadily ascends. It is stony, bnt good, with
hills close on both sides. Fair growth of scrub
and tufts. There is no variation until the Chash-
ma-i-Khwaja Hasan, At 8 miles pass remains
of old fort. At 8} miles is the Chashma-i-Khwaja
Hasan, where there is one deserted house, and
traces of former cultivation. The water is
sweet.
Ivoad row ascends regularly and more rapidly,
and is stony. There are a great many small,
ascents and descents into ravines from 20' to 50'
deep, and some of the gradients into these are
steep. At 13 miles gain the crest of the Gudar-
i-Kalmarz, altitude 4,482'. Hence road for half a
mile is nearly level ; it then descends steadily
through a valley. At first barely half a mile wide,
but gradually opening out. It is between high,
steep and rugged hills.
Road is somewhat stony, but good. At 16 miles
reach the caravansarai and ruined tower of Kal-
marz, which lies close to hills on the east. No
supplies of any kind can be obtained, and the
j. i 61 18 s ? . * Altitude 4,160'. Road continues
dnnl^ SCen ^ sam e direction, the valley gra-
arrl v 0 ^ ei l ln £ ^ an d enclosed by high, bare
nortwf A A 1% ^ 18 1]Q ^ es » i'oad turns more
y. At 20-3 miles there is a trifurcation
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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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