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'ROUTES IN PERSIA, Section 1.' [203v] (411/416)
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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354
No. 4.
Peshin to Guattab.
No. of
stage.
Dirt a no*, in
miles.
Names of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
Bbxarks,
2
water i
Mach Kaub
n plenty in the Sar
20
jaz Kan
32
r; goo<
Uneven road over stony ground in and out of
the Sarbaz Kaur which is also called Mazan Kaur ;
no village, date grove nor inhabitants ; grass and
wood in plenty ; no supplies; camel grazing good ;
. ground for encampment.
8
Bahp Kalat
20
62
Good road over open ground for some distance,
then in the Sarbaz Kaur ; then open ground and
good road into camp; Bahu Kalat is a collection
of three or four walled forts, one of which stands
on & commanding hillock ; entrance gates face south. There is a large village with banxas
nuder the fort. The inhabitants are Hoths, Eeis and a few Kinds. Supplies procurable
and grass in plenty ; water from the Kaur,
Good road over atony plain ; this place is a small
collection of date trees on the bank of the Sarbaa
nala ; water in plenty ; grass and camel grazing
procurable; open ground for camping.
4 Sibja
Bahbo
wood procurable.
Thamba .
Guattab
8
60
)
13
1
73
8
81
10
91
Good road through scattered jungle; here
there is a village and bazaar; the place is in
habited by a religious tribe called Kahiris or
Shekhs; water from pools in nala bed ; grass and
Very good road ; there is a village here; grass
and wood procurable ; camel grazing very scanty
and not good ; water from nala or wells.
For this and preceding 3 stages, vide No. 34,
Stages 1 to 5, pages 174 and 176.
No. 12 Q.M.G.I. B .—15 • 4 - 98 .—> 140 .
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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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- 'ROUTES IN PERSIA, Section 1.'
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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