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'ROUTES IN PERSIA, Section 1.' [‎33r] (70/416)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (206 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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No. 8.
Bampur to Karman, vi& Bijnabad.
No. of
stage.
Names of stages.
Distance, in
MILBS.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
Rbharks.
Katanzahu
Kalanzao.
1,500'.
18
The march lay across desert. There were a few
wells near the road. Kalanzahu is another chil or
lake. At 5 miles Chah-i-Jangi (good water in
plenty).
Chil Nadib or 17 80| Direction W. for about 6 miles, and then N.-W.
Kalebi. At 8£ miles, pass Tump-i-Just, a ruined hamlet
1,270'. and kanat. “ Tump ” is the local name for a
little fort. At 12 miles we rode through water
for 2 miles, the whole country being little better than a lake. We were here N. of the two
chils of Milan and Jihun, which is the origin of Jennings’name of Milan-i-Jihun for the
hamun. At 12£ miles, the Regan road branches off. Camp on little knolls, the surrounding
country being a swamp. Sweet water from a small nata. Grass, wood, and grazing
abundant.
98^ Road through desert with acasia and mimosa
jungle; very boggy in heavy rain ; numerous
wells to the S. of the track. At 1 mile we crossed
the Hudian river. At 13f miles, Tump-i-Sipahi,
another ruined fort, and at 15§ miles, Tump-i-Gunbad, also a ruin. At 18 miles, Chil-i-
Konar, with the usual lake.
Chil Konae or
18
Camp Gunbad.
1,208'.
6
Camp nearTuMP-
i-Peng.
1,241'.
14
throughout fit for all arms.
Zah Kalttt
1,253'.
181
112 £
131
There were numerous wells. At 6 miles the
Giranreg river, draining the Kuh-i-Marzarsana.
Water from lake as usual. .Jennings describes
this march as over a hard, stony plain, and road
abundant. We now leave ,
level the whole way ; numerous wells as usual.
Hazrat Abbas and a tiny plot of cultivation
At 3 a miles a well on the left containing peren*
nial water. At 6 a miles Kulgan, where sweet
water is procurable in plenty at 6'to 7' from
surface, and where grass grazing and wood are
Baluchistan, Zah Kalut being in Rudbar. The road is perfectly
lerons wells as nsnal Zah Kalut consists of a mud shrine to
8
Shahabad
1,267’.
231
hitherto been very stony
154^
At § mile we crossed a ruined kanat, and shortly
afterwards the Khaur-i-Teyo Numdad, a river
with several branches, all holding water. We
a* *i then reac M a &ood country, the road having
, . , . ., , / At V 6 mile8 we cr0sS the road from Rig Matti to Kohistan
which is the road from Marz to Regan ; at 15| miles a shrine, and at 231 miles Shahabad’
whmh consists of a large area (about 800 acres) of grain, watered by a kanat from tlmHahi
Bijnabad*
1,530'.
13*
167f
Road level, with numerous plots of cultivation.
At 1£ miles the village of Shahahad ; at 4f miles
Tump Digari ; thence Husenabad and Azad
thn "Nr /vf tv * v. a t!. ,, , , hamlets. At 13y miles we camned
in a^unLSe Bl;in WhlCh haS alS ° & arge ° f grain ' Supplies should be obtainable
h P t !!? 16 tra + ck i f r° ra to Bi j naba< t is desert for more than 150 miles, and so it would
be no easy task to march troops along it. We were fortunately guests of the Govemm of
* For road from Bijnabad to Khanu, tide No. SB.

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The publication, Routes in Persia, Section I was compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter-Master Gerneral's Department in India and was published by the Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, Calcutta: 1898.

Section I contains all the routes which commence from the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. littoral and extending to a line drawn from Burajird [Borūjerd], through Isfahan [Eşfahān], Yazd, Karman [Kermān], Khabis [Khabīş], Neh to Lash Juwain [Lāsh-e Juwayn]; the routes have been arranged within the volume by starting from the sea base of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and working up towards the line described.

For each route described the previous authorities, such as publications and accounts of journeys, are given, along with the following details:

  • Names of stages: towns and villages which act as stopping points along the route;
  • The distance in miles from the previous stage of the route;
  • The total distance in miles for that route up to that stage;
  • Remarks: including geographical information; details on smaller settlements; sacred places; condition of roads; access to water; other roads and routes.

The volume also includes two appendices which contain details of other routes for which the information was received too late to be included in the main body of the volume.

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.

The inside front and back covers have pockets containing index maps of the routes described in the volume.

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1 volume (206 folios)
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Folios 6-10 consist of an alphabetical index to names of places featured in the volume, excluding those places which appear in appendix II. Folios 11-17 are an alphabetical cross-index of the routes featured in the volume, again excluding those routes which appear in appendix II.

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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; 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. The volume aso contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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