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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [355v] (715/739)
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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662
No. 247— contd.
Zindjan to Sakiz, vid Nasiralad and Sahil,
Names of itages.
YtJEOHtrL
DisTAiroEa
IN MILES.
Interme
diate.
Total.
24
S akii
28
172
200
Kidmabks.
High grass-covered, rounded hills on both sides.
Reaches village Tazbulak. Large apri-
cot orchard here.
7 Reaches village Yurghul, about 40 hute,
and large apricot orchards.
A stream here which drains the valley.
Direction west follows down the right bank of the
stream which is lined with willows. To the left
of the stream* is a canal running along the side
of a hill lined with poplars for about i mile.
f Passes through village Kharanao, some
Lhuts, large apricot orchard and a few other
trees. Crosses the stream here and gradually
ascends along the side of the hill.
Pathway branches off left. Road up
and down over undulating bills of coarse grass;
very little cultivation.
2 hours, —Reaches small village Agha All. about
20 huts.
2i hours. —Crosses river flowing north ; bed about
120 yards wide and stony ; banks very low, but
little water at present.
2i hours*—To left village Chichi Khar, about 40
huts.
31 hours,
top of
towards
beyond.
-Having ascended from the river reaches
hill and commences to descend again
a well cultivated valley with bills
The hills about here are all round
topped, with coarse grass, a few of them having
low shrubs.
4 Village 1^ mile left on slope of hill#
hours, —Village Aliabad, J mile right.
hours. —Reach river, flowing north-north
east into a gorge between the hills.
Bed about 250 yards broad and stony, but little
water at present. Bank low. Cultivation on
both sides.
hours.—To left front village Gumantun.
plantation of trees there.
Here a road from left rear joins ours; it
from large village Sahab.
7^oM^.-—Group of trees to right of road,
trom village Qumantun joins track here,
/ i Aowr-y.—Village Sunata, J mile right.
Large
joins ours; it conws
Road
SJ Aow^.-^Reach Sakiz. hidden away in a hollow
at the foot of the hills.
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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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