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'Report on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for the Central Persia Telegraph Line' [50v] (105/300)
The record is made up of 1 volume (146 folios). It was created in 1899. 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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28M October 1898. Kabootar Kuan. Height 5,217 feet.
30//i October
Governor
Population
Crops
Supplies
Water
Houses
Transport
Labour
Climate
People
Remarks
Formerly Government property. Half now belongs to
the
Firman
A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’).
Firma, and the other half to Nurullah
Khan of Kerman.
200 houses ; 800 people.
Wheat and barley 25,000; cotton 8,000; millet 5,000;
beetroot and turnips 2,500.
700 sheep. Bread,
mutton,
fowls,
eggs, milk, in
fair
quantities.
2 streams of sweet
waKr
from
Lalezar river,
the
overflow of which appear* to go to Raisanjan and not
into Robat, as shown on the I. B. maps.
Sun-dried bricks ; domed
brick Chappar Khaneh.
roofs.
Caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
.
Burnt
200 donkeys at 1 Kran per diem. No mules or camels.
30 at 1^ Krans per diem.
5 a. m., 37 ; 0-30 p. m., 55.
Summers cool ; winters cold.
4 or 5 times snow.
Quiet, inquisitive, agricultur sts.
f En route, Faisabad, Aliabad, Salabad, Mohommedabad,
Abdulabad, Kassimnbad, Nasereah, Gazu Salar, Khak,
Khanmun, regarding which 1 could not get reliable
^ information.
'IQth October 1898.
Robat.
Height 5,5G6 feet.
Gove 1 nor
Population
Crops
Supplies
Water .
Houses
Transport
Labour
Climate
People
Remarks
Asaf-ed - Ho w 1 e h.
200 houses ; 1,000 people.
Wheat and barley 30,000 ; millet 5,000 ; cotton 2,500 ;
beetroot 2,500.
600 sheep, 200 cows. Bread, eggs, fowls and milk in lair
quantities,
4 Kanats. All very slightly brackish.
Sun-dried bricks ; domed roofs ; no beams or glass. One
good
Caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
of burnt brick.
300 donkeys at 1 Kran per diem. No camels or mules.
50 at IJ Krans each per diem.
6 a. m., 29; 12 p. m., 76 ; 6 p. m„ 61. Summer cool ; winter
cold. Snow 4 or 5 times, but only stays 2 or 3 days.
Quiet, intelligent, poor agriculturists. Maliyat 500
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
.
Bakilabad, 10 houses ; one Kanat, slightly brackish, from
Robat. Supplies very limited.
Kasimabad, 2 houses ; one Kanat, slightly brackish, from
Robat. No supplies.
Round Robat are Aliabad, Hosseinabad and Deh No,
which have no houses, but are merely patches. of cul
tivation, the people living in Robat.
Governor
Population
Crops
Supplies
Water
Houses
Transport
Labour
Climate
People
Remarks
10th Novcmb
Governor
Population
Crops
Supplies
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Report by William King Wood, Assistant Superintendent, Indo-European Telegraph Department. Printed at the Commissioner's Press, Karachi, 1899. The report is an investigation of proposed routes for the Central Persia Telegraph Line and is based on a journey undertaken by the author from Shiraz to Gwadur [Gwadar] between September 1898 and March 1899.
The report is divided into sections, as follows: Kashan to Yezd; Yezd to Kerman; Kerman to Bam; Bam to Regan; Regan to Pahra. Each section includes a description of the track followed, gazetteer, notes on sites for telegraphic offices, and a general summary. Additional descriptions are given for a number of alternative routes and routes investigated but considered unsuitable. At the rear of the volume are six appendices giving information on distances, costs, trade, water quality, and a glossary.
Folio 5 is a map of the route taken and the proposed telegraph line.
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- 1 volume (146 folios)
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At the front of the volume (folio 4) is a table of contents that refers to the original 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 148; 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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