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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [341r] (686/739)
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— con Id,
Yazd to Mash ad, vid Kharanah, PusJit-i-Badam, tyc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
K emarks,
Interme
diate.
Total,
6
Shtt?ghist
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2UI
of roads. One to right loads to a well; tlie centre
one goes on a bearing- 25° direct to Shorab ; left
hand one to Jafaru or Jafarabad, which bears
nearly due north from here. A not very high
hill divides the two roads, and they join a little
short of Shorab. Plain here is about 2 miles
wide, hard, and. covered with tufts. Altitude
3, / 20 • k
•Route now approaches the hill that divides the two
roads, and at 28 miles low hills close on right.
These are skirted for some distance, the plain
being 4 or 5 miles wide. The road crosses the
plain, and ascends very slightly to Jafaru, which
lies close under the hills on the west; but an
other direct road to Shorab goes straight on
skirting the eastern hills. Jafaru is a very
small village of ten houses, an old tower, a small
patch of cultivation, half a dozen date palms, and
a limited amount of supplies. The water is slight-
ly brackish.
At starting road is hard and good, rather stony,
and slightly descending. At 2| miles the road
here joins direct read to Shorab. Here it is about
half a mile to the eastern hills. In one of these
hills there are two craters.
At 8 miles plain begins to narrow.
At 1()| miles plain is shut in by hills on both sides,
and is not more than half a mile wide. Here is a
bifurcation of roads. One going nearly E. to
Shorab, distant about 2 miles, and thence to
' Chahardeh ; the other turning JS 1 . E. to Deh
Muhammad and Shirghist. The latter is the one
here followed. Shorab is visible from here, bearing
t., also great plain of Chahardeh, stretching to
horizon. This plain appears to extend a great
distance to E., and to be cut up on its westerly
side by a series of small ridges cropping up out
of the sand, and running parallel to one another,
nearly N. and S. Road continues in a N. E.
direction, skirting the hills on left. At 12| miles
there are some ruins close on right. Here the
wide and dry bed of a watercourse is crossed ; here
also are some wells and salt water.
Road now gradually leaves the mountains on left,
and enters ridges spoken of above.^ At 15 miles
ground is very much cut up by ravines.
Road, however, is pretty good. From here a tower
and some date trees are seen a few miles off to
the N. N. VV.
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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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