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'MOBILISATION ROUTES IN PERSIA (VOL. IV, PART II) (FARS, LARISTAN, KERMAN and YAZD)' [‎94r] (192/622)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (307 folios). It was created in 1924. 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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17 CHAH TALKH , 9 15 m. Genera.1 direction for
the first 4 miles
204| m. is N.-E. The road
rims due north § of a mile to the square fort of Kaleh Kalan
close to which is the Bagh-i-Am n b d, passed at f of a mile ;
at If miles the Tang i-Kal n is entered between two hills about
400 feet high, the width of the entrance being 150 yards. The
road now turns N.-E., up a valley f of a mile broad covered with
grasses and scrubs and bounded on all sides by hills. At 2f miles
the road enters the bad part of the tang, which is here a narrow
watercourse running between lofty impassable hills, the bed
being a mass of large stones and not over 6 yards broad, narrow
ing down in one place to 5 feet. The road is here passable with
difficulty by mules and donkeys, but impassable for cavalry and
camels. At 4 miles the road emerges from a ravine and runs
up a steep watercourse between high banks of conglomerate.
At 4J miles the road emerges from the ravine and debouches
on to a level plain stretching south known as Yazd-i-Khast.
This plain narrows rapidly to the N. and becomes the Chah Tiz
valley, drained by a broad and deep ravine with impassable
banks, to the E. of which the road runs. This valley is bounded
on either side by steep hills, some 1,500 feet high. The road
stony, but not difficult, slopes gently upwards, crossing frequent
watercourses running west to the main ravine. At 5 miles
a cistern (containing water in March 1907) is passed. At Si
miles, the mainstream is crossed and the road from this point
keeps to the western slopes. At 9| miles the ruined huts of
Ruzak are passed, a summer resort only. Water from one
cistern ; grazing very good ; fuel plentiful ; supplies nil. At
10 miles the valley divides, one branch running N.-N.-W., the
other N. ; the road follows the former, and constantly crosses it.
At 10 miles a gap in the precipitous hills is passed, through which
a footpath runs to Juwun via Kaleh Alburd, a ruined fort in the
hills, said to have been occupied by Rustum. At 15 miles the
summit of the pass is reached. The plateau at the summit,
about J a mile broad, and covered with trees and grass, is known
as Chah Talkh.
Water .—Fair supply from a spring just below the summit.
Fuel. —Plentiful.
Fodder. —Grazing.
Supplies. —Nil.

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The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Mobilisation Routes in Persia (Volume IV, Part II) (FARS, LARISTAN, KERMAN and YAZD) General Staff India 1922 (Simla: Government of India Press, 1924).

The volume contains details of land routes. The information given for each route comprises:

  • number of route;
  • place names forming starting point and destination of route;
  • authority and date;
  • number of stage;
  • names of stages;
  • distance in miles (intermediate and total);
  • remarks (including precise details of the route, general geographical information, and information on smaller settlements, local peoples, religious affiliations, condition of roads, access to water, supplies of wood, and other routes).

The volume also contains a map entitled Index Map to Routes in Persia Vol. IV. Part II , which shows a region of central and southern Persia, indicating routes described in the volume, cities, towns, roads, tracks, paths and hydrology. The map includes a printing statement which reads 'Simla Drawing Office No 2914. September. 1922.'.

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1 volume (307 folios)
Arrangement

The volume includes an index (folios 270-306), and provides a map in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folio 308).

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 309; 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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