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'ROUTES IN PERSIA, Section 1.' [‎63v] (131/416)

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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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82
No. 19 A.
Borasjan to Sardasht.
Distancb, Ilf
MILBS.
No. of
stage.
Names of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
Reuabks.
Sbahpur, but the ford is a mile further down and crosses to the village of Hapulu. TIk
river has high hanks near Sadabad, and is some 130 to 150 yards wide. Neither t'm
Daliki nor river Shahpur is fordable in winter.
Deh-i-Kona
Chaeasai
12
24
16
40
Going firm and good. Vide No. 21-A.
At 6 miles a good sized and thrifty village called
Deh-Darun is reached. Here there is a due;
about 70 yards wide. At 11 miles is another
good village, Dch-i*Khalifa ; at 14 miles a river
4
Bamiabi
22
62
At 2 miles there is a duct called Kedihee, 59
yards wide; at 6 miles a village, Deh-gahesfid;
at 7 miles a duct, narrow and dry (May), called
Dara-i-Jazira ; at 11 miles Sur-Abasi, a narrow
duct (now dry); at 1H ““iles village of Deh-Abasi ; at Ilf miles river Shahwalayat, aboEt
80 yards wide; at 12§ miles large village of Muhammad Sadir ; at 14| miles duct Dara-i-
Bun, which is rather a nasty place, as it has so many branches ; great care must be taken is
selecting a favourable crossing. At I 83 miles a duct called Dara-i-Gatchi, narrow and drj;
at 20 ^ miles another ducr, Dara-i-Kori, narrow and dry._
Bamiari is a good sized place ; the inhabitants are quiet and very civil.
Gazar . .24 86 At 3 miles river Kashdun, 70 yards wide, with
high banks. This, I am informed, is the river
Kanava, but I am not certain as to the correct-
ness of the information. It is very probable tb>t
it is the same, and that most of the ducts (“ darehs ”) discharge their torrents of rail
water into the Kanava and thus account for its overflow during the rainy season. AH
miles is the duct l)ara-i-Gap, 130 yards wide, now dry ; at 8 miles village of Shul; at 13|
miles narrow duct; at 14 miles small village Shahr-i-Veran ; at 17 miles duct (now dry)
and rather broken ground ; at 18 miles village of Gurbai; at 21 miles river Lailiti, or Aw
i-Siah, 100 yards wide, with high banks; at 24 miles Gazar, a fairly large place.
Kinae-i-Kuh
18
dry, close to village Bidu ; at 17^
80 At 2 miles village Muzafari; at 6 miles due:
Dara-i-Gazluri, near village of same name; «
9 miles village Siah-Makun ; at II 5 miles narro*
, duct, now dry ; at 15 miles narrow duct, nos
miles narrow duct, now dry ; at 18 miles Kinar-i-Kuh.
7
Sarda- ht
20
100
After 3 miles almost a continuous drag over
mountains and through passes up to the river
at Sardasht.
Note.—T here are good “ manzils ” at easy distances all along this route.

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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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