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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [358r] (720/739)
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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APPENDIX—
K ashan to K upiia, via Is at am.
Authority — S ykes ( F ebruary 1895).
Fo.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances in
miles.
Eemaeks.
Interme
diate.
Total.
6
VARTAN ...
6 ,100'.
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94 J
close together and perhaps 5 miles awaj. Tark
has about 1 ,000 houses, and through it a hilly
road runs to Soh, on the main telegraph line. At
3 miles, the alternative road from Hamza joins
in, close to the ruins of what was once a consider
able garden.
Shortly after the sarai and hamlet of Sardahan,
the former in ruins.
All this time a steady rise, the road for a consider-f
able distance lying through a maze of low hills.
At 8 miles a watershed (6,720') and shortly after a
spring of bad water, some 50 yards to the west of
road.
At 9 miles, clear the hills, and emerge on a plain,
whence a spleudid view of snow peaks to the
west.
At 13f miles, another low chain of hills.
A plain of similar extent and character follows.
At lo| miles pass Shorcheh lying on the north
ern slope of another range—a tiny hamlet with
brackish water, and at 164 miles, after passing
through this range, the hamlet of Marg, also
with salt water, is reached. To the south of
it lies yet another range of hills, and the road
then traverses the great plain in which lies
Isfahan.
Supplies at Marg very indifferent.
For the first five miles, road lies nearly due east,
parallel to the Marg range. At IJ miles
Chashma Sabzbast, a spring of sweet water to
the north of the track. At 3 miles Sulakh, a
hamlet to the south. At HJ miles Hajiabad to
north of road, and shortly after cross the
Shorgistan-Isfahan road. At 5 miles a water
shed (6,000') with another spring of sweet water
to the north. At 6 miles the hamlet of Tut
on the road with good water. From this point
Dehzilu is about a mile north-east on the Shor-
gistan-Vartan road, and at 8 miles is the large
sarai of Bagh-i-Robat (5,700') which has a fair
quantity of supplies, but dubious water. Having
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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).
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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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