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'ROUTES IN PERSIA, Section 1.' [‎74r] (152/416)

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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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Bushahr to Bandar Abbas,
Distance, in
miles.
No. of
stage.
Names of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
M. F.
M. F.
23
Aliabad .
2,220'
21—0
322—
1*4
Rkmabks.
General direction E.
The road, traversing the Lar valley, passes
between frequent irrigation bunds, and through
fields of very poor wheat; and for the first mile
skirts, at a distance of about 600 yards, the south-eastern outskirts of the city. We now,
leaving the city in our rear, pass a large grove of date trees about 80 yards to south, and
immediately after, on the same side, a caravansarai falling into ruins, said to be not now
in use. At 1 mile 3 furlongs the irrigation bunds and trenches, which had been gradually
becoming Ijess frequent, cease, and we pass through tracts of wheat and barley with frequent
tamarisk frees. This is succeeded by short thin grass, tamarisk bush, and a few scattered
date trees. At 3 miles 5 furlongs the road passes the village of Birak, 30 yards to south
of the track, containing about 100 houses, small, neat, and mud plastered. Good halting
place. Since leaving Lar we have been approaching the range Birak on the south side of the
valley, from which we are now about 600 yards distant, and from the range, called “ Gatch, ”
on the north side, about 2 miles. At 4 miles 3 furlongs we pass, 150 yards or so to south
of the road, a series of rectangular areas, about 150 yards square, surrounded by earth
mounds at least 10 feet high. The road now trends away to the middle of the valley,
which is here well tilled, and green with cultivation. The ground of a whitish clay
is, when uncultivated, covered with short thin grass. Larg«e irrigation wells and
cisterns near the road-side are frequently passed. The ground now becomes stony, and
slopes at about 3° to south-east. The valley is gradually narrowing in as we advance,
till at 10^ miles, the hills to north are distant about 450 yards, and those to south
about 150. At 11 miles 2 furlongs the valley has become almost a defile, which is
called Tang-i-nao. Within the next 3 furlongs we twice cross the dry stony bed of a
water-course about 20 yards broad, flow generally eastward. At 11 miles 7 furlongs
the defile, about 200 yards broad, is bordered by low hills on either side. Advancing
another 5 furlongs, we again cross the dry bed of the water-course previously passed. The
further or eastern bank is here perpendicular, and forms a cliff about 20 feet high, but
is broken down at the point of crossing, so as to form a steep slope. About 20 yards
to east of this low cliff we pass the caravansarai, called “ Basti Pariab. ” The cliff,
formed by the further bank of the stream, runs round and covers the south, as well
as the west face of the caravansarai, which, with stone walls two feet thick, is 30 yards
square, and contains about 19 lower rooms. Close to the caravansarai are three cisterns,
all in good repair. At about 2| furlongs, after passing Basti Pariab, we cross the
water-course previously encountered, bed as before dry, but now very shallow and shelvino-,
overgrown with grass and tamarisk bush, and 150 yards broad. At 13 miles low
tumular hills descend directly to either side of the road, which is very stony, and becomes
more so as we proceed. Within another mile the defile is opening out, the low stony
hills being now 30 to 50 yards distant from either side of the track. We observe several
big and small kanar trees scattered about the pass. At 13 miles 7 furlongs the road crosses
the dry stony bed of a nala, flow S. to N. The low hills have now cleared away, and the
road is passing midway between the range of big hills to N. and S., distant about 600 yards.
Advancing another mile the road enters the bed of a water-course, flow eastward, and immedi
ately after passes along its very stony bank. The channel is about 100 yards broad, dry, and
incrusted with salt. Prom this latter fact the water, when in flood, must apparently be
brackish. At 15 miles 5 furlongs we again touch the south bank of this channel, and follow
its course along the southern side of a grassy valley devoid of bush or tree. At this point
named “ Piri Bala,” where the road touches the river, a road branches off to Kaana-Duzd.
The valley widens out as we advance to 7 or 8 miles. At 21 miles, after crossing a
deep ditch containing good fresh water, we arrive at the village of Aliabad. The houses
oi mud and stone, with flat roofs, open inwards, .and form the sides of a large square

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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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