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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [368r] (737/739)
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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Route No. 77 {a) — confd.
No.
of
. stage.
Names of stages.
Irter-
mediate.
Warchao—
Distances.
Total.
Miles
Miles.
Sultanabad
Sarukh
28
1671
25l
i93i
Remarks.
half away, is the village of Abbasabad of the
same size. At 2* miles a kanat is passed.
This marks the end of the cultivation, and
from here the road winds its way up to the
pass. At 5f miles a road leading to Kashan
is crossed. At io| miles the top of the pass is
reached and an elevated plateau entered, vil
lages and gardens are visible in the distance.
The road is good and descenr's gradually
until, at I2§ miles, a fine avenue of young trees
lead? to the village Warchao, which, with two
small hamlets, contains 280 houses. There
are 4000 sheep and 200 donkeys. Yearly
produce is 2,000 kharwars grain. Maliyat
4,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
cash. Messrs Zeigler & Co.,
have carpet looms here, and in most of the vil
lages round Su^tanabad.
From Warchao the road runs north over an
elevated grassy plateau. At 5 miles it crosses
hill spurs and begins to descend, and a salt
lake is visible in front. At 7 miles the descent
is rteep and rocky. At 8^ miles is Hassana-
bad, a small walled village containing 10
houses and a kanat. At 9I miles the village
Ciili is reached. There are 60 houses and a
kanat. The annual produce is 800 kharwars
of grain. A t 15^ miles a rocky ridge is cross
ed, and at 17J miles, after traversing a plain,
another ridge is reached, from which Sultana
bad is visible. At 2o| miles the road runs
along the foot of a range of hills. At 22^
miles a and some cultivati n is passed,
and from this point the road leads straight to
Sultanabad, which is reached at 28 miles.
This road from Isfahan to Sultanabad is fit for
artillery throughout.
Leaving Sultanabad by the south entrance, the
road skirts the town and then proceeds in a
north north-west direction over level ground.
At 4^ miles the village Marsegiran is passed
on the left. Here two roads branch off to
Hamadan ; of which that on tbe left leads
over the hills, and that on the right skirts the
hills, remaining on the edge of the plain. At
8^ miles the village Mehrabad is passed two
miles to the left of the road, which is here re
duced to a pathway over ground formerly
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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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