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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [352v] (709/739)
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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6M
No. 247—
ZinojaN to SaKiz, via Naur ah ad
■ "
No.
Names of stages.
dlstak"c13
iv milbs.
of
•tage.
Interme
diate.
Total
K b marks.
U hours.—Leave th« hills. Ou the other side of
the plain is another nnge of hills paralfel to those
left, and the ground falls slightly towards
them. This range contains Mount Paighainb-ar,
which is seen in th^e distance bearing 16^°. Sooil
after we see small village Imcha,. 1 mile left.
1
/
Z arnabad
52
32
5 hours —See village Zarnabad ahead of ns.
6' hours. Reached village and encamped near a
stream and several springs of excellent water.
Village consists of about 50 huts and a few
trees on the banks of the stream.
The road was good, and with a very little work
could be made passable for carts at present, but
to make a permanent road to last through a
rainy season, all the numerous ravines, comijig
down on each side of the pass to the river, would
have to be bridged.
Left village in a north-west direction for half a mile-,
till four cross roads were reaci.ed; then turned left.
Direction 220°. 'Ihe road following parallel to
the stream which was the far side of the village,,
and whose^ banks were lined with willows-
From the village there were several other roads
leading to adjacent villaores.
9 hour.— Kcached village Khain, about 60 houses
and gardens. This village is the
Kafila
A train of travellers; a caravan; or any large party of travellers.
manzil of
this route. From here direction west.
1 * hours. Reach river and follow down it (direc
tion south for ne arly a mile), then cross arid follow
down opposite bank. There is but little water
in the river, it all being drawn off for cultiva
tion purposes, and draining from the fields
across the road, makes the latter very heavy.
1 j Leave the river and turn more south
easterly into the hills. The river from here goes
through a dark rocky defile, and then takes
a bend to the right and we cross it again later
on. Our road soon begins to ascend, and looking
back towards the north-east in a hollow is the
vi lage Khizaljak. The hills are rounded with a
ew limestone rocks, the strata of which run across
the road and up the hills at an angle of 30°.
4 owrs. Having followed up a small stream,
0Wn a roc ky ravine, by a rather steep
rlL ^ 0 P' a large tableland with
xij 3 1111 unions, which forms the
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
,
TKo C0Un i- sou ^ 0 f this gradually falling,
r Wf J . era hed is the boundary of the provinces
This tableland is but
ivated, being covered with coarse grass
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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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