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'Report on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for the Central Persia Telegraph Line' [131r] (266/300)
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 February 1899. Absowaran. Height 3,350 feet.
Temp.—5 a. m., 53 ; Ip. m., 72 ; 6 p. m., 65.
Lying in the mountains, about a mile off the track to the west, is the
small Absowaran spring of sweet perennial water. There are about half a
dozen date palms here. The camel grazing is fair, and fuel is procurable in
small quantities.
2nd March 1899. Kolegan. Height 3,775 feet.
Temp.—6 a. m., 59 ; 6 p. rn., 71.
The halting place of Kolegan is situate about three-fourths of a mile to the
right, west, of the track, and in addition to a spring of sweet perennial water
has a grove of 400 date palms \ but there were no huts or tents. The camel
grazing is good, and fuel is abundant.
3rd March 1899.
Serbaz.
Height 3,184 feet.
Q-overnor
• ••
Sutut-ul-Memalik.
Population
• • •
j
7 huts ; 35 people.
' Wheat and barley 600 mans; rice 2,000; beans 150.
Crops
•i
Dates in abundance.
Supplies
6 cows. Dates, rice, fowls, eggs in very limited quantities.
Water
• • •
From river; fair supply.
Houses
• • •
Fort, in ruins, of mud. Also, huts of mud and peesh.
Transport
• « •
10 donkeys; 7 camels.
Labour
• • •
Nil.
Climate
(
{ Temp.—5 a. m., 57°; 1 p. m., 84 d ; 6 p. m., 79 c .
... i
[Very hot for 9 months.
‘ All Baloochees ; no Persians south of Bampur. Maliyat,
People
1
1
400 Krans for Serbaz alone ; 17,000 for district, which
extends to Parood.
r Serbaz must have deteriorated since Sir F. Goldsmid’s day,
Remarks
\
as it then had 30 houses. I was told the inhabitants
had all fled to Karachi.
4tf/i March
1899. Ziaret Jah. Height 2,500 feet.
Governor
• • •
Sutut-ul-Memalik.
Population
5 huts ; 25 people.
['Wheat 500 mans; rice 10,000; beans 100. Dates in
Crops
...|
l
[ abundance.
f 4 cows. Fowls, eggs, mutton, rice and beans in very
L small quantities. No barley or straw.
Supplies
- i
Water
• • •
River; fair supply.
Houses
• ••
Peesh.
Transport
• • •
3 donkeys.
Labour
• • •
<
Nil.
^ Temp.—5 a. m., 64° ; 1 p. m., 95°; 6 p. m„ 83 .
Climate
... -
Very hot for 9 months.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (146 folios)
- Arrangement
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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