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'ROUTES IN PERSIA, Section 1.' [159r] (322/416)
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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271
No. 49E.
Dizak to Paskuh.
Authority . —Sykes, 1894, {from native information ).
No. of
stage.
Distance, in
miles.
Names of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
Rbmabks.
1
Stage on Sau-
bandar river.
17
17
Koad runs up the Sauraudar river, a tributary of
the iSimish river. At 17 miles a stage exists in
river bed.
2
Gwadae .
18
35
A very hilly march with a pass at 6 miles. At
18 miles the hamlet of Gwadar situated on a
spring. It is in the district of Sib.
3
Paskuh .
19
54
First half of the march very hilly. The end is
level, and across the plain to village of Paskuh
[vide Main Route, stage 2 above).
No. 49F.
Kwash (Washt) to Kuh-i-Chahel Tan (Kuh-i-Taftan).
Authority . —Sykes and Brazier-Creagh, 1894.
No. of
stage.
Distance, in
miles.
Remarks.
Names of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
1
Nimdkh . .
4,960'.
10i
lo£
An almost level track, N-N.-W, skirting the
Kuh i-Espetak. At 6| miles a track branches east
to Chah Sam, some 3 miles distant; to the west of
the road Chah Manshan, about 2 miles off; both
of these wells form the watering-place of three or four flocks apiece. The track at ]0| miles
runs paralled with a nala. This stage quite waterless.
Waraj
6,552'.
able name of Murtaza Ali.
18 28| The road approached the Kuh-i-Chahel Tan
rather obliquely. At 4 miles and to the end of
the march it was very rough and stony. At 9
miles a shrine and a cemetery with the inevit-
Under Kuh-i-Chahel Tan, which here bore 52°, was a little
hamlet, consisting of a few trees and two huts, called Geruk. We soon afterwards came
close to a huge boulder-strewn watercourse, which drains the Chahel Ian main range. At
13| miles a splendid stream of water. We then pass through what was, until lately, a well-
cultivated terrace-land, now deserted, and at 16^ miles reach Koshab, a good-sized village,
containing several fruit gardens, some of the trees being of great antiquity. At 18 miles*
Waraj, a small hamlet.
The track is fit for ponies the whole way up to
Band-i-Gelu. At f mile a ruined fort (Kala
Tamandan) on the left bank of the river, and on
the right bank an oval cave hollowed out in the
rock some 10 feet above the ground. At 2j miles Tozer, a wide piece of terrace-land, with
3
Kuh-i-Chahel
tan v Kuh-i-Taf-
25
43|
tan).
12,859'.
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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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