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'Report on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for the Central Persia Telegraph Line' [107r] (218/300)
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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General Summary.
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dis “nc?o“ 0 maes^ Tlir‘V’ 0 n ° 0t f '' er Cl ® ft 111 tl,i9 rock y ch ^« with in a
be to “ iumn ”^1 ; / he “y way of carrying the line through here would
bo to jump the poles into the rock face horizontally.
At Rood Mahee, we were on the western edge of this chain of hills on
the eastern extremity of the Uasht-i-Lut, and climbing a peak I saw the desert
waste stretching towards Regan. ' 1 1
oft Jn" t l ns , r " uto ’ "l 1 to f;°" d Malice, the greatest distance without water is
slrotol^^'f >U ^ ^qo* Mahee to Regan, across the desert, there is again a
stretch of over 90 miles without sweet water, and where the supply is brackish
and precarious from wells. * r ^
In th ® tot al distance from Ladis to Regan, some 176 miles, the only tents
seen were 8 or 10 on the Galugan plain, and 12 at Rood Mahee, where supplies
uere not procurable, and which were inhabited by migratory Baloochios.
Ihere wasno cultivation, and they informed me they imported wheat etc
from Siestan. 1 33
What has been written on the many disadvantages pertaining to the
v lash route equally applies to the one now described, and no object can be
gained by again repeating the many objections to this route.
^ 1 took a bee line, due north, across country to Dozdab and Malik Scab
Kub, thence to Siestm, to get supplies, but as the Hue would not go up this
route, a, description of the track and gazetteer only have been given as an
appendix to this section, while the return journey from Malik Robat to Re^an
is given as the third unsuitable route.
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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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- 'Report on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for the Central Persia Telegraph Line'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:147v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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