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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [343r] (690/739)
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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627
No. 248 — cont'i.
Y azd to M ashad, via Kharana fyc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interme-|
diate.
B bjuabes.
Total.
Road up to here has been very good, hard and
e ve n ; very gently descending from the Gudar.
At 23f miles a dry tank.
At 27 miles the ridge on right runs down to a low
point and ends here, some 3 or 4 miles distant,
and great plain stretches to the right as far as
the eye can see. On the left the same high
range is 5 miles distant on that side bounding
the valley, which is very level.
At 29| miles a dry tank. Altitude 2,700'. The
mountains on left gradually approach road, and
join hills on which road is directed. At 33 miles
road is close to ridge on left; the ground is a
trifle rough, and there has been a considerable
ascent to this point. At 34J miles cross dry bed
of watercourse. Road continues to ascend gently,
till it gains the low end of the ridge on the left.
Hence the road descends very slightly to the cara-
vansarai of Zangi-Chah, 36 miles. Here is a
village of 17 houses. Water salt. The sweet
water is 1 farsakh away to the S. E., where thera
is a spring. There is a large, good caravansarai,
where supplies can be obtained. Road very good
and very hard.
9
B ardaskand
(f ?apab a8kan)*
2,860'.
m
332
Start up a watercourse, dry; road rather stony ; a
high hiU on left, and low hills on right. There
is a considerable growth of thorns and tufts.
At 5 mile the road reaches a plateau cut up by
ravines and small hills, where there is good graz
ing for large flocks of sheep. Altitude 3,230'.
At 14| miles there is a detached hill about half a
mile to left of road. On N.E. side of this hill there
is a well of water nearly sweet, called Kahugish.
The place is somewhat difficult to find, but it
may be recognised by some graves between the
hill and the road. The well is about 12' deep.
The road up to this point is very good, tliough
somewhat stony in places.
It now commences the descent of another valley,
where there is a good growth of tufts and some
small shrubs. Here plain is about a mile wide,
with a high, red hill close on left. On right there
is, a mile distant, a long, shiny, black hill.
At 18 miles valley opens out into another vast
plain, running nearly E. and W., and extending,
in both directions, to the horizon. A snowy peak
is seen nearly due N. At the point (18 miles)
there is an ahambar (dry).
At 20 miles hill that has been on right of the
road for the last 2 miles ends and the plaia
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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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