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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎345v] (695/739)

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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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632
No. 243— co at (I,
Yazd to Mashad, via Khar an ah^ Pusht-i-Badam, 8fc.
Biage.
Names of stages.
\
D istances
in miles,
Interme
diate.
Total
Eemabks«
12
Kafgtb
33200'*
419r
ridge intervening between it and the Nishabut'
plain.
At b6 miles arrive at tlie little village of Sang Gird.
There are 30 liouses here ericlbsed in a square fort
with towers at the corners. There are no gardens
and no caravansarai. Supplies all plentiful. The
river, already considerably diminished since leav-
ing the hills, flows under the walls of the fortj
which is on its left bank. Thei-e is sweet water
in an ahamhar about 200 yards distant. This
abambar is dry in summer, for it is supplied
by rain only ; then the people drink the brackish
water of the streatn.
Course 27°. The sriowy peak above Sabzawat*
bears 29°. Start across the great plain; Thei?0
is a Considerable amount of wheat cultivation and
of assafoetida. It g^rows wild here, and cows eat
it. Plain stretches to right to a range of hills»
It slopes upwards to left, limiting the view irl
that direction.
At 9 miles is an ahamhar, where there is water in
spring time.
At 14^ miles pass the village of Huseini, 2 miles
to left. Road up to this point has not varieds
It is hard^ firm, good and level. Now it begins
to asCend.
At 15f miles a hao% and well with water called
Shah Arab Kuchak.
The road now enters a downy country amongst
low rounded hills covered with grass in tufts and
thoi'ns ; it gradually ascends. At 16^ miles gain
crest of low ridge that here bounds plain. As
cent easy ; road very good. Altitude 3,720'.
From the crest road descends a little to a small
uneven ba«in, surrounded by low rounded hills.
Good grazing for sheep and camels. At 17^ miles
road ascends again very slightly. At 18| miles
pass a well. At 19 miles road descends very
gently down valley about 200 yards wide bouuded
by low hills. At 20j miles some dirty water
is passed.
At 21 miles reach village of Pa-i^Baz, enclosed in
square walls with towers at the angles* At none
of the villages about here are there any gardens
or fruit trees, and they are most miserable look
ing places, with dome-roofed houses of mud,
Pa-i-Baz is situated at the edge of another great
plain running east and west, and bounded on the
north and south by low hills. The hills on the)
north, however, do not extend beyond the bearing

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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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