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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [343v] (691/739)
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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628
No. 243— contd.
Yazd to Mashab^ via KharanaJc, Pusht-t-Badam y fyc*
No.
of
stage.
Names of stagRS,
D istances
IN MILES,
E bmaeks,
In term e
diate.
Total.
30
_ I
S ir
4,280'.
14
346
i
stretches to right, 5 or 6 miles, to a long ridge of
not very high hills. On left the mountains^that
bound the plain are high, and some 8 or 10 miles
distant.
At 22 miles a dry tank.
At 24i miles there is a bifurcation of roads, rio-ht
hand one going to the villages in the plain ; the
other is directed straight on Bardaskand. Eoad
is hard and good.
At 26f miles an ahamhar, with a little dirty water
in it. The soil now becomes clay, Eoad is still
hard and good, but in wet weather it is evidently
heavy.
At 29 miles a bifurcation cf roads. A great num
ber of villages are now to be seen on plain on
right, to which the other road goes.
At 84J miles here is an irrigation stream of good
water. A little further than this, and about half
a mile to left, there is a village.
At 40| miles the road skirts the large village of
Khuramabad, and soon after passes close to
another smaller village. At Khuramabad supplies
and water can be obtained, also lodginsr.
Marching from Zangi-Chah, it would doubtless be
best to halt at Khuramabad, as the distance to
Bardaskand is too long, and necessitates a short
march on the next day.
At 47| miles Badar-Askan is reached. The com
mon people often pronounce this name as if it
were Bardaskand or Badraskand. It is a large
village of 500 houses in the district of Turshiz,
the capital of which is Snltanabad.
Badar-Askan is not walled. It contains 500
houses and 2,000 people. The water is excellent
and plentiful. Supplies also are abundant.
There is no caravansarai or public accommodation
of any kind. There is one hamraam, but no bazaar.
The plain of Bardaskand extends to Sultanabad.
The plain produces wheat and barley, but not
sufficient for the people who live in it, who import
grain from Sabzawar. Opium also is grown in
considerable quantities. Grapes, figs, pomegra-
nates, apricots and peaches are cultivated in tbe
gardens. Altitude of Bardaskand, ^SGO 7 . See
Index.
Start in a north-east direction. Road gradually
approaches^ mountains over stony plain. There
is no cultivation on this side of Bardaskand.
At 3 miles road enters the bed of a watercourse,
and is somewhat stony.
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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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