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'ROUTES IN PERSIA, Section 1.' [103r] (210/416)
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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101
No. 31.
Dizful to Kut-ul-Amara, via Azad Kunar.
No. of
stage.
Distance, nr
MILES.
Names of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
Rkmabks.
Two miles further on reached the Shengula. There was no village, only a little
cultivation. Saw a few villagers from a distant place.
8
Azad Kunar
21
160
Direction northerly. Follow rapidly rising bed
of river for 100 yards or so, and then for half a
mile turn up tributary. Rise about 200' up to
plain. The hills on right seem to rise abruptly
from the plain, while 16 miles on left are the low hills of the Turkish frontier, and on
this side a ziarat, Sayad Hasan, 182°, claimed by both Turks and Persians, and therefore
the outward reason for constant quarrelling and petty fighting at this point. It is by this
route that pilgrims from Shustar, Dizful, and those vid badrai come. The Turkish Arabs
to the north are the Karabeh. Encamped by the stream (lalai Gawi. From here a difficult
mountain road leads to Amla; a summer camping ground in the Faili Garmsir, distant
28 miles. About half-way to Amla the Wali’s summer place, Husainyeh or Kungi
Cham, is reached. Here he has two square castellated buildings, one private, the other
public.
• Vide Route No. 4, Section II.
Dizful to Kut-ul-Amara vid Dehluran. Authority — Maunsbll, 1888. Vide Route
No. 5, Section II.
9
ZORBATIA .
20
180
10
Badrai
22
202
11
Jessan
13
215
12
Kut-ul-Amara .
40
255
No. 32.
Fanoch to Ramishk.
Authority.' —'Sykes and Brazier-Creagh, 1894. [Front native information).
Distance, in
No. of
stage.
MILES.
Names of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
Remarks.
1
Mirabad .
11
11
Road up river bed. Mirabad is a good-sized
village with a palm grove; supplies, fuel, and water
abundant, numerous hamlets along the river bank.
Good road up stream almost to the source of
2
Darambakon .
10
21
the Fanoch river, a small date grove; supplies
scant, water and fuel obtainable.
3
Kamshahr
11
32
Road up stream to Ramp, a hamlet at the actual
source of the river; then through low hills with
an easy watershed, and a slight descent to
Kamshahr on source of a river flowing W. ;
supplies scanty.
r
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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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