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'MAP OF PERSIA, WITH A MEMORANDUM AND INDEX.' [‎4v] (13/57)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (24 folios). It was created in 1892. 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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MEMORANDUM ON THE NEW MAP OF PERSIA.
by single lines, following their course. Where, however, they only
exist upon hearsay—and that as a rule the not too veracious gossip of
muleteers—I have departed from the example set in previous maps, and
have as a rule excluded them; such hypothetical routes being more fre
quently a snare than an assistance to the traveller.
In the selection of names of places for insertion, I have
necessarily been compelled to exercise a somewhat arbitrary choice. I
might easily, from the large-scale maps which have been placed at my
disposal, have crammed the superficies of this map with threefold or four
fold the number of names. In the East, however, small villages and
nomad camps are constantly shifting or disappearing; in desert regions,
a name in many cases indicates little more than a caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). or a well;
and I have accordingly given the preference to the recorded experiences
of the most recent travellers; my principal desire being not unduly
to crowd the surface, or to represent as a teeming centre of population
what the exasperated traveller would find upon approach, to be only
a waste expanse, with widely scattered and fugitive evidences of life.
I have inserted the altitudes of the principal cities and mountains;
and have marked the course of the Indo-European Telegraphic wires
from diflis via Tabriz and Teheran to Bushire (as also the branch line,
maintained by a British staff, from Teheran to Meshed), of the submarine
cables in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and of the land-line from Jask along the
coast of Mekran to Kurrachi. The Persian telegraphic wires I have
thought it superfluous to introduce.
The only two railways in Persia, from Mahmudabad on the Caspian
to Amol, 12 miles, and from Teheran to Shah Abdul Azim, 6 miles, are
marked.
Of political frontiers or lines of demarcation I must speak at rather
greater length. I have not inserted any provincial boundaries in Persia
itself, for the reason that the administrative subdivisions are not fixed,
as in England, by topographical conditions, but are determined by poli
tical exigencies, and vary very much from time to time. As regards
external frontiers, I have, after much consideration, adopted a fourfold
system of delineation, answering to the four classes of border which I
shall show to exist either in Persia or in the adjacent countries that also
appear on this map. They are as follows:—

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This book consists of a map of Persia, with a memorandum and index, prepared by William John Turner for the Royal Geographical Society under the supervision of the Hon George Nathaniel Curzon, M P.

The memorandum is written by George Curzon, a Member of Parliament, and explains the origins of the mapping exercise and the issues involved. An appendix lists the maps directly used in the compilation of the new map and a second appendix lists those maps not used but which were useful for reference. There then follows an index of place names and accompanying grid references to the map. The folded map is placed at the back of the publication.

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1 volume (24 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 26; 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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