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'Persia 1888. From Rishir to Bunder Abbas.' [5r] (14/69)
The record is made up of 1 volume (32 folios). It was created in 6 April 1888- 8 Jan 1894. 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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No. 701-T-A., dated Simla, 6th April 1893.
From— Colonel T. H. Holdich, R. E., Superintendent, Survey of
India,
To—The Quarter Master General in India, Intelligence Branch.
With reference to your No. 1041-1., dated 5th April, calling for an offi
cial report on the survey traverse run by Mr Butcher of the Persian Tele
graph Department from Bushire to Bunder Abbas, I have the honor to
state that I consider Mr. Butcher's work to be exceedingly satisfactory.
The compilation of his traverse has been carried out without difficulty
owing* to the care taken over his observations and the clearness of his record,
and the results, judging by the small amount of error which it has been
necessary to dispense, are most creditable to him. It is seldom that any
officer whose regular official training does not include survey instruction
takes such trouble as Mr. Butcher must have done to master the details
of professional surveying before starting on an exploration. The result is
that I have now the pleasure to record for your information my opinion that
Mr. Butcher is the best unprofessional survey work that we have ever
received from Persia for compilation.
Map in pocket at end of book.
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This volume is a report by Samuel Butcher, a superintendent and clerk in the Indo-European Telegraph Department, documenting the route from Rishir, a village near Bushire, to Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]. The report describes the different cities that Butcher went through on his way to Bunder Abbas. Each description contains information on supplies, water, fuel, cultivation, grazing and camping grounds.
Folio 2 of the volume contains a dedication from the author, Samuel Butcher, to George Curzon. The report was the property of Curzon.
The volume contains five lithographic A lithograph is an image reproduced from a printing plate whose image areas attract ink and non-image areas repel it. prints of drawings (folios 13, 16, 19, 21, and 25) and one map in a pocket at the end of the book (f 33).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (32 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers in the volume proceed in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates on a map with 33, 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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- Mss Eur F111/70
- Title
- 'Persia 1888. From Rishir to Bunder Abbas.'
- Pages
- front, back, spine , edge, head , tail , front-i, 2r:12v, 14r:15v, 17r:18v, 20r:20v, 22r:24v, 26r:31r, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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