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'ROUTES IN PERSIA, Section 1.' [‎78v] (161/416)

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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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* For road from Lingah to Bandar Abbas, along the eea coast, «ee end of this route, page 113,
112
of limestone, and then descends oyer the glacis-like slope of the strata, for a distance of
about 30 feet, to a smooth, gravelly, and stony plain stretching to the sea. As we advance
and clear the hills of the pass, the gravel and stone disappear, and give place to a fine sand.
At the point of exit from the pass (the upheaved limestone strata just crossed), the hills to
south are distant about 600 yards, and those to north 1,100. These ranges, as we advance
gradually sinking into the plain, form the horns of a crescent, which is open to the eastward.
At 12 miles 5 furlongs a dry water-course appears to north of the road, and then runs
off to east. One mile 6| furlongs in advance, the road crosses this water-course, flow to
south-west, bed shallow, of a sandy whitish clay, and about 20 yards in breadth. The
caravansarai and cistern of Chesterneh, are both in good repair, and the latter full of
sweet water. Supplies nil. Water from one cistern. Fuel moderate, from small bush and
brambles. Cultivation nil. Grazing very poor, from thin, dried up, yellow grass. Camping,
grounds good.
30
Bandab Abbas*
30'.
15-4
438—
3-4
General direction E. | N.
The road over a sandy, clayey ground, thinly
clothed with dried up, yellow grass, passes for
1 mile through a low jungle of very small bushes.
At 1 mile we cross a shallow water-course, flow to north-east, bed dry, and about 20 yards
wide. Another 2 furlongs, and rocks, formed by the out-crop or upheaval of strata, rising
to the height of, say, 30 to 50 feet, touch the south side of the road. These outcrops, strid
ing in a N. by E. direction across the plain from the southern extremity of tiie low range
of Kuh Gatchin to south, dip, i e., slope, at an angle of about 30° to the east. The western
faces of the upheaved strata are abrupt and precipitous. We then pass through a labyrinth
of such upheavals. On the north side of the road, distant 800 to 1,000 yards, low
mounds stretch away to the north-east, to the foot of the range Gatchin. At 1 mile 5 fur
longs the road, over very sandy ground, enters a defile, 60 yards broad increasing to 150,
running north-east between upheavals of rocky strata similar to those already described.
The whole plain, hereabouts, is broken up into similar defiles, running parallel to one an
other, and varying in breadth from 50 to 200 yards. At 3 miles these rocky feature-',
on the north side of the road at least, are merged in the general level of the plain, though
they still continue to south at a distance of 150 yards. We then pass over a level plain,
dotted with small kanar and other bush. Two hundred yards to north of the road extend
large groves of date trees. Advancing thus 3 furlongs, the road crosses a dry water-course,
10 vards wideband 170 yards further on, another, bed about 30 yards broad, containing
pools of brackish water; flow of both southerly. At 3 miles 5 furlongs we pass a
carayansarai arid a large cistern, called ** Khana Surkh,” The cistern contains good water,
but its roof is in a broken and ruined state. Supplies nil. Water good and plentiful, from
one large cistern. Fuel moderate, from furze, bramble, and date trees. Cultivation nil
Grazing poor. Camping-grounds good.
At 4 miles we are traversing a sandy tract, dotted with furze, bramble bush, and sparse
clumps of coarse grass. To south, at a distance of 600 yards, date plantations border the
road. To north a low ridge of upbeaved strata, distant 200 yards, approaches our path
diagonally. At 4 miles 2 furlongs a long, low, sand and gravel hillock, or rather mound,
runs along the south side of the road. This is succeeded by a plantation of young
date trees fenced off by a low stone wall. One mile 1 furlong further on, the sandy
maidan and low jungle cease, and we enter upon ground broken up by low mounds, nalat,
etc. A dry water-conrse, on the north side of the road, runs to east. At 6 miles this
nala, turned by slightly rising ground, trends to north-east. We then pass the cistern
and rumed caravansarai of “Band Ali,” the former apparently in good repair, and, for 100
yards or so, traverse broken ground, intersected by gullies, amid low hillocks’of sand
and sun-baked clay. The mounds of sand to south of the road then merge in the

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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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