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'ROUTES IN PERSIA, Section 1.' [61r] (126/416)
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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Routes in Persia, Section I. Route No. 18-H.
From Rain to Bahramabad (via Bahramjird and Mashiz).
Authority and date : —P. M. Sykes (spring and summer 1900).
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mediate.
Total.
Miles.
Miles.
Note .—This route was previously unexplored. It
describes an arc to the south of Kerman. Sec
tions of it might be of use as lateral communica
tions between columns on main roads.
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Leaving Lain the route runs nearly north across
a low range of hills. It then turns westward
and passes Muzaffarabad at 3 miles. Other ham
lets are passed until a warm medicinal spring,
Ab-i-Gaz, is reached at 6| miles. Here there isv
fine chinar. The track then passes between two
conspicuous hills, beyond which the Gudar route
leaves the Sang-Makun road and runs uphill to
the north-west, with the giant Kuh-i-Hezar to
the south and the almost equally lofty Band-i-
Gudar (as the Jupar range is here termed) to the
north. At about 15 miles is the almost imper
ceptible
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
which separates Bam from the
basin of the Bahramjird river. Gudar has a
ruined fort, a few nomad inhabitants, and a fine
kanat of water.
2 Bahramjird ...
32
38
There is a gentle descent towards the north-west
through a plain, as far as Huseinabad at 20 miles.
Near here the mhin Kerman-Rahbur road is
struck. The route here inclines northward to
Bahramjird, one of a group of villages lining the
river. There are good supplies and water. The
henna caravans proceed from here down the river
to Sarai-i-Chari (14 miles) and join the main
Kerman-Bahramabad road at Baghin, 16 miles
further on {vide Route No. 47). This is the
best route ; that now described being an alterna
tive one only.
3 Nagar
10
48
The track is perfectly level, over desert country, to
Nagar where the supplies and water are good.
The main summer Kerman-Bander Abbas route
(No. 18) is struck here.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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