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'ROUTES IN PERSIA, Section 1.' [60r] (124/416)
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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77
©
No. 18E.
Baft to Furg.
Authority. —Brazier-Creagh, 1894, {from Kalantar Uhuldvn Husen’s
information').
No. of
stage.
1
Names of stages.
Vakilabad on
“ Dasht-ab.” .
Distance, in
MILES.
Inter
mediate.
19
Total.
19
Bemabks.
Vide No. 18, page 71. Yakilabad is a small
village one mile west of Kash-Kuh on Dasht-ab.
Supplies in small quantities available. Water
good from kanats.
KaBP . . 16 35 Road runs over a gradual ascent in a south-west
(KhaBK?) direction over good level going. At 7 miles the
road enters the hills, and the going is shingly.
Karp is a large village with a population of 1,500 souls, and pays a Maliyat of 1,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
. Supplies procurable. Water good.
Rutshttn
lofty red lime-stone bills.
12] 47 Fo^d over undulating ground under the lofty
snow-clad Kuh-i-Khabr, crossing a narrow plain
open to the west and blocked on the east by the
kuh-i-Mezar. Rutshun is a small village under
No supplies; water good from hill stream.
Kasimabad
11
58
Sultanabad
!
13
71
Road ascends across limestone range of high hills
over a narrow strong pass and crosses the plain
over good level going to the hamlet of Kasimabad.
No supplies ; water good from kanats.
Road runs over good level going across the plain
on which are several small villages and a good
deal of cultivation. Sultanabad is a large village,
with gardens and cultivation ; it is on the direct
kafila
A train of travellers; a caravan; or any large party of travellers.
route from Bandar Abbas tnd Daulatabad to Yazd. Another road runs to Ahmadi
from here vid Nisa, three stages, but is reported to be not so good as that vid Pur and
Daulatabad, and there are no supplies along the route.
6 Hajiabad . 16 87 Road runs over an alluvial level track. At 3
miles the hamlet and date grove of Dara Ba^h
is passed on the left. Two miles further on
, , . TT , . tf 16 roa( i enters a mountainous district and is
bad going till Hajiabad is reached. The hamlets of Dehshekk and Lardigar are passed
en route. Hajiabad is a small village under Kuh-i-Nuradini. Supplies in small quantities
available. Water abundant and good. q - es
7 Tizarg
8 Tabum
15
102
12
114
— vmage.
good. M ally at, 4,000
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
.
Road runs down the bed of a narrow tang over
shingly going the entire way. Tizarg is a small
hamlet. Supplies scant. Water from fci.l
stream.
Road over open desert tailed Tashkurd. Good
going. This plain is open to the south and
west; on the north is the lofty Kuh-i-Sukhtak
range and in the south the Galugah range,
in fair quantities available. Water abundant and
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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)
- Arrangement
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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