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‘Military report on south-west Persia, including the provinces of Khúzistán (Arabistan), Luristán and part of Fars.’ [135r] (274/470)
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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Route No. 3.
From Gulpaigan to Burujird by the Chaman-i-Sultan Route skirting
THE BAKHlfARI IIILLS.
Authority —Major M. S. Bell.
Distance—89 miles.
Time.
Names of towns, villages, &c.
A.M.
5-0
5-15
5-40
5-40
6-10
7-20
9th May 1884.
GulpaigIn (elevation
5,875').
Long. 5G° 20' E.
Lat. 33° 24' N.
Waena ShIjn
Distances in
miles.
Interme- „ , ,
diate. TotaL
Remarks.
Barometer 24‘0"; thermometer 48°.
Clear of the town, the road is a mule
track over a clay soil, and is cut up by
numerous irrigation channels.
Good wheat and clover growing.
Leaves the valley and skirts the gravel
ly slopes of the steep and barren hills to
the west of the town, becoming a good,
hard, and broad (30') surface track.
Cultivation in the valley ceases, and it
becomes covered with tufts of grass and
a low thorn bush.
A small village, situated at the head
of the Lambi pass, surrounded by cultiva
tion and walled gardens of fruit trees,
&c.; the road passes through the gap, the
Tang-i-Lumbi, 500 yards to the northward of the village ; barometer 23'6" (6.620'). Crossing
a hard cherty rock (50 yards long) it becomes a mule path, improving into a 15' r’oad on gain
ing the valley leading up to Khonsar. This valley, here 5!X) yards wide, is richly cultivated
and soon opens out; it is bounded by hills 300'high ; walled enclosures fill its bottom, on
either side of the stream.
Crosses to the right bank of a rapid
stream, 8' wide, running in a bed 18' deep,
by a brick bridge, 1 arch, 18' span.
Abreast of the village of Khajan, a long
scattered village lying in the valley with
its detached huts surrounded by walled
gardens ; mud walls 6' to 10' high.
, Between the outer lower hills and the
Kiih-i-Khonsar, covered with snow, is a
range of low, barx-en undulations, of
shale.
Still skirting the gardens of the village
of Khajun, crosses several short stretches
of shale, each 40 to 100 yards long, where
the xmd narrows to a mule ti’ack.
Passes between walled gardens; poplars,
3" in diameter, ai’e numerous ; those of 6 7
diameter are rai’e. Fruit tx’ees (pear, plum,
gx-eengage, apple, nut, Ac.) are abundant.
8-15
...
...
8-50
Khajan
...
9-15
Khajun
• ••
9-20
...
...
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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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- 1 volume (231 folios)
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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.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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