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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [363r] (729/739)
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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jy e 6d
Route No. 140 -A. Section III.
F rom M eshed . T o D ushak.
Authority and rfa&v—CAPTAIN ORANOFSKY. 1894.
Epitome —Total distance 102 miles. A good road for baggage animals, which
could be made suitable for wheeled traffic with a certain amount of labour. Water
supply scanty : only one well with very indifferent water, viz., at Chashma Bulan
between Dushak and Karatigan, a distance of 33I miles. Also from Karatigan to the
5" tr 2 nce of the Chacha valley, a distance of 19I miles, there is only one small well of
indifferent water. No fuel except in the gardens surrounding the villages of Karatiean,
iabatkan, Ahmadabad, etc.
No.
D istances.
of
Stage.
Name of Stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
Rbmarks .
Miles.
Miles.
I
Kanagosha
"1
Road follows the Meshed valley everywhere
under cultivation and is fit for wheeled traffic.
For the first five miles road passes several
karezes and at the 5th mile crosses the
Keshaf Rud by a fine stone bridge. Kana
gosha contains 1000 families of Sunni Haza-
ras; a fine karez, annual supply of 19,320
cwts of wheat and 16,100 cwts of barley, 1000
cattle and 8000 sheep and goats.
2
Ahmadabad
10
2 *8
Road continues to follow the Meshed valley
for first three miles and is fit for wheeled
traffic, next three miles passes through
undulating country, gravel soil, and then
descends into the Ahmadabad valley, descent
short and steep only 150 yards. The last 4
miles road runs up the valley of Ahmadabad,
which at first is 100 yards and then widens
to 300 yards and presents no difficulties to
wheeled traffic. Small supply of good water
for last 4 miles from stream. No forage or
supplies en route*
3
Amirabad
24
45I
First 4 miles road runs up the Amirabad
valley, 300 yards wide, hills on either side
low and rocky. Within less than a mile of
Tabatkan at 4th mile, valley widens consider
ably and is cultivated : opposite Tabatkan is
another defile called Jagri, through which
flows a stream of the same name. Tabatkan
(Tabatku) contains 150 families, 200 cattle
and 100 sheep and goats, annual supply of
wheat 3864 cwts and same of barley : stream
of same name passes through village. From
Tabatkan road crosses in a North-East
direction over a range of hills and descends
to the valley of another stream, in which is
a small hamlet. After traversing this valley
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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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