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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [354r] (712/739)
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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649
No. Ul—
Zindjan to Sakiz, md Nasirabad Sabil.
No.
of
■tage.
Name« of stages.
dibta-ncbs
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total,
N abieabad
25
105
Rbmabes.
roads. Ground in front falls gradually towards
a narrow valley, beyond which is a range of Hat-
topped hills above which can be seen Bijar hill,
about 9 farsakhs distant, bearing 190°. From
here road bears due west.
2 hours.—To the right rear are five villa ges, all
the country being well cultivated. The people
about here speak Kurdi, while up to he last
manzil, Turki was spoken. The wheat in the
small villages is good, but on the low hills, it is
very poor and dried up, standing only about 12
inches high.
Four cross roads. Continues west.
The road to the north leads to a vijlage, about
J mile distant, of which the tops of the trees only
can be seen. Ten minutes after road takes a bend
to the left. Direction 220°.
3 hours,—Crosses small stream in deep hollow,
flowing from north to south.
4 hours. —Reaches village Khamchagi, about 60
huts, and then crosses another river flowing
south-east. Bed about 50 yards wide. Water
about 1 foot deep, 10 feet wide ; current swift.
To the north-west the river passes between high
rocky hills, to the south-east it flows along a
narrow valley, well cultivated, with several village®
and plantations of trees and fruit orchards.
After crossing the river road divides. Route is to
the right from which several pathways branch
off to the right to various villages. The road
to the left leads to the Bijar, about 8 farsakhs
distant,
5J Aowrs.—Ascends from the river and reaches an
undulating tableland ; the undulations are not
nearly so'steep as before.
7 hours,—^ow comes into the Bijar-Sakiz road,
coming from the south-south-east, and follows
down it, gradually descending direct north for
i mile, and reaches village Nasirabad, about 4.0
houses. Spring of good water. The road from
Zindjan was nothing more than a pathway, diffi
cult to distinguish in many places. The Bijar
road, however, is better and broader.
Direction 285° down a small ravine with a stream.
The ravine opens into a broad plain with slight
undulations and bounded by low flat-topped hills.
All the plain is cultivated with wheat, which is
not yet quite ripe. From last manzil were two
other roads going right and left to other villages.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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