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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [377r] (758/982)
The record is made up of 1 volume (487 folios). It was created in 1910. 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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S-?7 J
QUM-QUM
743
watered by the RM-i-Kuraieh and belongs to peasant proprietors. To it
belong the villages of Injan, Isfarjan and Maqsud Begi.
There is a post office in the town, and it is a telegraph station of tne
Indo-European line for administration purposes only.
The plain of Qumisheh has a length of 50 miles by a breadth of 16 and
contains some 40 mud-built villages. Round each village for a distance
th ms^he^eatnErGovernor, who is nominated from Isfahan, to which Gov
ernment this town belongs. The town consists of seven parishes of about
8 000 houses in all • total population 30,000 to 60,000. There are said to
be 20 serais of 8 to 20 rooms apiece. There are 40 qandts ; 100 000_ mans
(1,300,000 lbs.) of grain are sown yearly. Taxes amount to 25,000 tumans.
Supplies of all sorts and water plentiful. . . ,
The most prevalent diseases are dyspepsia, opthalmia, intestinal worms,
and intermittent fever. Diphtheria was also prevalent for 8 years pnot
to 1885. Smallpox is generally present; during the spring of 1884 it was
more common and virulent, causing many deaths to children Whooping-
cough prevalent, measles ^.-(Odling-Preece-Grahame, 190S.)
Thermometer Re ‘dings for the Section of Qumisheh.
1881 .
Thermometer. 1
Bm.Rs.
Weather.
Wind.
Remarks.
Month.
Maxi-
Mini-
Dry.
Wet.
mum.
mum.
January ...
— —1
56 - 06
30-58
43-51
38-58
Fine.
If any S.
W. gene-
Rain and snow,
night 5th and
rally calm.
6th.
February 1st
60-86
36-00
48-20
43-52
Do.
Do.
9 a. m. to 12, rain
to 15th.
March 10th
to 31st.
70-72
39-15
56-86
47-81
t-.
Generally
fine.
Do.
1 night’s rain.
April
75-53
45-69
62-11
54-11
Do.
Do.
2 nights’ rain.
June
77-46
52-56
81-39
67-65
Do.
Do.
Nil.
July
96-32
68-93
87-12
69-00
Do.
Do.
4th and 5th, a
hurricane from
W.
August
91-92
63-89
82-21
65-46
Do.
Do.
Nil.
October
82-61
46-12
70-70
56-93
Do.
Do.
8th, blowing
hard, night
■ ■
. «
29th and 30th
and day.
November..
G7-76
38-40
56-66
49-73
Do.
Do.
30th heavy rain.
December ..
55-19
32-96
43-12
40-03
Variable
Do.
3 days’ rain,
and 2 heavy
snow.
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The item is Volume III of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).
The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, climate, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
The volume contains an index map, dated July 1909, on folio 488.
The volume also contains a glossary (folios 481-486).
Compiled in the Division of the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India.
Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.
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- 1 volume (487 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 489; 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. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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