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‘Military report on south-west Persia, including the provinces of Khúzistán (Arabistan), Luristán and part of Fars.’ [150r] (304/470)
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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269
Route No. 3A— contd.
From Gulpaigdn to the Zarda Kuh, 8fc. —contd.
Distances in
H •
Names of towns, villages, &c.
MILES.
B3
sx,
!zi
Time.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Eemarks.
From Pul-i-Zaman Khan to Deh-i-Kurd was said to be 3 farsakhs (see page 279).
General Remarks.—The road throughout the stage is of a hard surface, 6 ' to 10' wide,
except when otherwise noted.
21st May 1884.
Barometer 22 , 95' / ; thermometer 48°.
Road, a hard and broad track, descends
a shallow stony ravine; the country is
barren; no grass or trees grow ; rocky hills
crop up here and there; soil, sandy and
stony.
To the left low undulations extend to a range of hills about 10 miles distant.
A.M.
5-45
Ab-PunA
41
7-10
7-35
8-15
8-30
HusainabAd
diameter of about 1,200 paces, and contains
Crosses a small stream.
Small village, with a walled fruit garden,
watered by a small stream, along which
wheat is cultivated. There is a range of
high undulations 2 miles to the right.
Country, gently undulating; slopes
gradually downward ; soil shaly.
A small enclosure or kal’a ; on a bearing
of 75° are the village and town of Ismia-
jun and Arun, surrounded by fruit gar
dens, all walled. The town of Tirun has a
450 houses. It is surrounded by well preserved
walls flanked by towers, and is the head-quarters of the district containing 50 villages lying
between NajafaMd and Dumbana.
9-5 ... ... Passes the east end of the gardens refer
red to and round a high undulation ; soil,
sandy and stony ; the road, a broad,
30' track, joins in with the main Isfahan-
Gulpaigan road.
The hills to the right are 2 miles distant, and intervening is a barren plain.
9-22
AzizabAd
...
6-35
which rocky undulations crop up here and there.
Road skirts a stretch of cultivation consistin;
wheat is from 2' to 3' high and in ear.
10-10
Village, lying 1 § miles to the right half
front, surrounded by fruit gardens,
i Crosses a plentiful stream 3' broad.
| The hills to the left are now 2 to 2|-
| miles distant, and those to the right 3 to
j 4 miles. Between them lies a barren plain
j studded with a few gardens, and out of
of wheat, fruit trees, and poplars. The
The hills, 2 miles distant to the left,
look to have a considerable depth, and to
be composed of a number of detached,
barren, rocky hills rising 1 , 000 ' over the
plain.
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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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