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‘Military report on south-west Persia, including the provinces of Khúzistán (Arabistan), Luristán and part of Fars.’ [112v] (229/470)
The record is made up of 1 volume (231 folios). It was created in 1885. 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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214
Route No. 1 — (.ontd.
From Muhammerah to Tehran, fyc. —contd.
£2
Time.
Distances ix
miles.
Names of towns, villages, <fec.
Interme
diate.
Total.
A.M.
5-55
18th April 1884.
Ab-i-Saed
...
290
6-20
••
...
6-55
1
• ••
• ••
Remarks.
15 5-55 Ab-i-Saed 290 Barometer 25 - 35 v ; thermometer 48° •
cold wind. Crosses the stonj and grassy
basin, very swampy in places ; streams
well out of the hill side.
Crosses a small stream, and rising, shirts
the sides of an undulation ; good track.
Undulations of clay ; their slopes gen
tle and up to 12 °; decomposed gypsum
rock again abundant.
Skirts the Afnna stream, flowing west
and north ; it is 20 ' wide, 2 'deep, and
rapid ; it flows between deep undulations, the sides of its valley being composed of undula
tions of red earth and decomposed gypsum.
Crosses the stream as above, descending
into its bed over difficult steps in rock;
barometer 25-8" (4,24*0'). Shortly after
crosses a subsidiary stream 10 ' wide and
1 ' deep.
There is cultivation near the river
crossing ; good grass grows notwithstand
ing the stony nature of the soil.
There is there the Kal’a-i-Nasar and the ruins
7-30
NASABiBiD
Nasarabad lies to the east of the stream,
of a post office and telegraph station.
8
and bad, and in places steep.
8-10
Crosses heavy undulations composed of
red earth and decomposed gypsum ; their
greatest slopes about 15°. The track is
generally good, but here and there rocky
8-15
A steep ascent and descent. *
Steep and difficult ascent (GO' high) over
rock and red earth, the Kuh-i-Gird; skirts
the Kulohu or Tajin stream, 30' wide and
, , , , , , rapid, flowing west in a deep valley bor-
deied by undulations of red earth diversified by outcrops of rock.
Barometer before descent 25‘8";inthe
bed of the stream 25•95" (4,140’).
Crosses the stream, 30' to 50' wide, 2' &
r , ' ,, . deep, sfony bottom, by a temporary bridge
or trees thrown over by the Uiyats, and traverses undulations as before. A few stunted
oa s and shrubs grow here and there ; crosses an extensive outcrop of felspar rock.
Barometer 25 , 5' / ; skirts the Kuh-i-Gha-
zal, a steep range, of light brown colour,
with broken sides, and elevated 500' over
the valley.
290 Track stony, rises gradually; soil, a rich
red clay ; oaks of larger size than hereto-
ii - , fore. There is a remarkable absence of
all animal and bird life in these hills {see page 81).
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Report marked strictly confidential, prepared in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General’s Department in India, by the Assistant Quarter Master General, Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell, Royal Engineers. The volume was published by the Government Central Branch Press, Simla, 1885.
The contents of the volume are as follows:
- part I, a narrative description of a journey from India to Muhammerah [Khorramshahr], through to the Luristán [Lorestān] hills, to Kúm [Qom]; from Kúm to Gulpaigán [Golpāyegān ], Chaman-i-Sultán [Chaman Solţān], Ali-Gúdar [Alīgūdarz], Imámzádá-Ishmail [Emāmzādeh Esmā‘īl], and the Zaindarúd River [Zāyandeh Rūd] to Isfahán; from Isfahán through the Kúhgehlú [Kohgīlūyeh] hills to Behbahán and Bandar-Dilám [Bandar-e Deylam]; from Bandar-Dilám to Bushire
- part II, a detailed account of southwest Persia, compiled from Sever’s own observations and other available sources
- part III, commercial considerations. A further section in this chapter on strategic observations, which is mentioned on the contents page and marked as secret, is not present in the volume
- part IV, detailed road reports
- appendix A, road reports, Isfahan to Shústar [Shūshtar], Shústar to Shíráz [Shīrāz], compiled in 1881 by Captain Henry Lake Wells, Assistant Director of Persian Telegraphs, with additional annotations by Bell
- appendix B, a list of plant specimens collected in Luristán during April and May 1884
- appendix C, extracts of a paper on the geology of the Turko-Persian frontier, written by William Kennett Loftus, June 1854
- appendix D, meteorological observations at Bushire, from 20 March to 20 June 1885
The volume includes eight maps, two photographic plates, and illustrations throughout (topographical, architectural, anthropological). The two photographic plates and some of the maps are of an earlier date than the volume’s publication date of 1885.
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A contents page (f 7) and index (ff 222-226) refer to the volume’s original printed pagination.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 233; 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.
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