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Manuscript of Persia and the Persian Question (Continued) [‎43r] (85/690)

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The record is made up of 1 file (218 folios). It was created in 1890. 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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perfect reflection of the rising orb, in the shape of a circular nimbus
of prismatic light. Too soon the vision faded and disappeared. At
the Arab encampment, composed of parallel rows of Seed huts I
struck the left bank of the Ab-i-Shfteit, here a fine Overflowing
between steep jungle-clothed banks with a width of about 4 W ri« a -
d™d_iU“Uifty yards. The track followed it for three or four miles
and then at a point where a rocky bluff comes down to the right
bank of the river, and there is a second Arab village on the left
struck across to the north-east in the direction of Shuster. I did
not again see the Shkteit or Kanin till nh™™ Voi™;— j-V •
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Z^ S f nt ’, at , le “‘ ot b yg°. ne eultivation. Dykes, watercourses, and
the banks of dried canals intersected the country in every direction •
while the recent rams had converted the track into a sea of mud A
village with palm-trees was passed on the left; a larger and thicker
green fringe on the horizon gave suggestions of a better tilled and
more populous site; a pyramidal spire crowning a ruined mosque
appeared upon lie hill-top,- white-washed cupolas shone amid the
trees, and presently the panorama of a large town in a state of
obvious decay unrolled itself upon the summit of a considerable ele
vation, evidently terminating on its right or eastern side in a steep
gorge. Thick groves of collar trees 1 were scattered over what aro
now arable plots, but were once the famous gardens of Shuster; in
the midst of which numerous brick towers of refuge—no^unlike
those that I have seen dotted in such numbers over the old hunting,
grounds of the Turkoman freebooters in Transcaspia and Khorasan
—showed that agriculture, even in the immediate vicinity of the
town can at one period have been far from safe, and paid an eloquent
homage to the lawless proclivities of the Persian nomads in the
past I forded the - shrunken stream of a canal, called the Minatt
which formerly irrigated the suburbs to the south of Shuster, and of
which I shall have occasion again to speak, passed the r&ned imam-
* A o£ AbduU ^°n its isolated hill-top, the building being flanked
on its northern front by two tottering minarets, and surmounted by
a hideous plaster cone which looks, as Loftus said, exactly like the
extinguisher of a candle; picked my way through heaps of Mbris
Jfcat once marked a town wall, and emerged on to an open space
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This file contains sections of the handwritten manuscript of the book Persia and the Persian Question by George Nathaniel Curzon. These papers come as part of the full handwritten draft of the book that comprises the shelfmarks Mss Eur F111/30-32. The printed edition of the book can be found in the file with the shelfmark Mss Eur F111/33.

Eventually published in 1892, the papers in this file cover the ancient and modern history, geography, and social and political aspects of Persia during the late nineteenth century when George Curzon temporarily lived in Persia. The manuscript also discusses the Russian and British presence in Persia and the author's views on the two countries' respective strategies in the country. The papers also include some of George Curzon's own travel writing while in Persia.

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The papers are arranged by chapter as part of a handwritten manuscript.

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Foliation: this file consists of two physical volumes. The foliation sequence commences at the front cover of volume one (ff 1-220) and terminates at the inside back cover of volume two (ff 221-345); 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-344; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

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