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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎356v] (717/739)

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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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654
APPENDIX.
Kashan to Kupha,
Authority— Sxkhs ( P kbruary 1895).
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Interne
diate.
Karim Dasht
3,650'.
A nd j an
(Hinjan).
4,850'.
Total.
12
20^
12
Bbuabks.
The road, after leaving the Telegraph Office, skirts
the city walls. At J mile the Yazd road {vid
Nain) branches off, shortly after clear Kashan,
which has not many suburbs to the south. Its
only good water-supply is drawn from a * kanat/
which runs down from Korud, all the other
^auats ' being brackish, although drinkable.
At 65 miles the sarai of Haji Abul Kasim with a
tiny hamlet and a 1 kanat ' of good water. At
7^ miles another 4 kanat' of good water running
east to Jafarabad, distant about a mile.
At 10J miles Aliabad also a mile away to the west
with Bakarabad, Asadabad, Guz, Fakreh
Mazrab-i-Nao, Kijan—small hamlets presenting
an almost unbroken line to the east of the road ?
and at a short distance from it. From this point
the track enters the hills and becomes extremely
stony. After crossing a deep, dry nullah, which
runs north-east, reach the fair-sized village of
Karim Dasht.
Supplies and water good ; also a small sarai. Road
passable for all arms. Carriages are sometimes
sent by this route to Isfahan, although the route
is very rough.
There is a rise of 550 feet from Kashan, where the
climate is detestable.
32^ The road at first consists of a series of rises and
falls across low rolling hills.
At 1J miles and at 2f miles pass tracks running west
to Nasrabad and Tutmarch, both stated to be
some 6 miles nearer the great range.
At miles the village of Shahdehan 2 miles east
and lying in more open country, thence a steady
rise to Robat-i-Sang at 111 miles, just short of
which, Shujabad lies to the east, J | miles from
the road. Kashan territory is quitted, the boundary
being at 5| miles..
Robat-i-Sang possesses a tumble-down ' sarai *
and a * haoz * of good water. A few supplies can

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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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