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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [367r] (735/739)
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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3
Route No. 77
No.
©f (
stage.
Names of S'tages.
Distances.
Inter
mediate.
T \ksiX \—contd.
Imamzadeh
Miles.
Total.
Miles.
I07a
R emarks.
At 4 miles a broad clay plain is crossed, with
tv r o small forts and a village Aliabad about 2|
miles to the left. At 4I miles is Dur;
200 housesj 3 kanats. and 700 sheep. The pro
duce is 200 kharwars of grain. At il| miles
th^ road crosses a spur and ascends among low
shaley hillocks : nt is rough going kw wheels
at this part. At 15^ nrles is the ruined cara
vanserai, Madar-i-Shah, which has a bad repu
tation for lobbera. The country here is very
barren and deserted, wiih no good drinking
water. At 16^ miles the road continues as
cending and at i8i miles reaches an elevated
clay plateau with hills on either side, those on
the right about 6 miles off and those on the
left about 10 miles away. At 20^ miles a
rough and stony ridge is crossed and the
road descends into the next valley. At 22
miles are the commencement of two kanats, of
which one is new. On the left are gardens
belonging to Asfabad ?nd Dur. At 23^- miles
is the village Dur which contains 200 houses,
700 sheep and 3 kanats. The yearly produce
is ^oo kharwars of grain. It looks a miserable
place.
At 26 miles cultivation is passed, and the village
Shurcheh, consisting of 30 houses, the yearly
produce of which is 100 kharwars of grain.
Continuing down the dry bed of the stream
Tikan is reached, where water is scarce, one
pool only supplying the village. Tikan has 100
houses, and 2000 sheep The yearly pro
duce is 2000 kharwars of grain. Maliyat is
350
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
.
(Note).—On account of deficient water-supply
in Tikan, it is advisable to camp, half a mile
above the village where water is obtainable
from a kanat coming from Shut cheh.
Leaving the village Tikan the road continues
down the river bed, which is left at 2 miles,
when a stony plain, close under the range of
hills on the right, is traversed. At 3? miles
the road once more strikes ihe river bed and
crosses it. At I2j miles the road (after cross
ing a sloping plain) bifurcates; the left road
leads to Gulp*igan. Taking the road to
the right at 16 miles ihe village Niwun is
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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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