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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [51r] (106/536)
The record is made up of 1 volume (264 folios). It was created in 1928. 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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Route No. Ill— contd.
midway, a small stream in deep ravine and pass village ot
Kalat of some 120 houses, with gardens and cultivation. Route
2 joins here. Numerous other villages with cultivation lie
among the hills.
At latter half of route pass the villages of Saghi, Kuchi and
Sahrabad on the left and Shirazabad on the right. Direct
road from Kakh to Turbat is via Gunabad straight across
the plain to the north. Zibad is a village of 200 houses sur
rounded by fruit gardens, and abundantly watered from hill
springs.
Camping ground. —Unlimited.
Water .—From a karez good unlimited.
Supplies. — Nil.
Fuel. — Nil.
Grazing .—Little for camels.
2 BIJISTAN .. 28 m. Route NW. lying to
the W. of the Guna-
43 bad valley. Road
rough and stony, passing in the first 11 miles villages of Brazu,
Kazum, Sinuh, Naudeh and Patanju, each containing 100
to 120 houses. Water abundant from hill springs. At 14th
mile enter the hills over a rise or pass called Gudar-i-Kameh,
through an easy defile to an open space where the hamlet is
of Kameh, with about 20 houses. Beyondi Kameh, where water
is scarce road leads over ridges through defiles, in parts very
narrow and impassable for guns 'without previous preparation ;
everywhere rough and stony. About 19th mile cross the
Gudar-i-Rudi-Ghaz watershed, elevation 5,150 feet. No
water for the last 12 miles. Country here slopes westward
till it joins the vast desert waste called “ Kavir.” The town
has 600 houses with a population of some 4,000 souls, a ruined
fort, 2 good caravanserais, 4 hammams, 50 mosques and 70
shops. Excellent water melons and abundant fruit in season.
The town is surrounded by fruit gardens, and watered by
three karezes. Its situation is at foot of a bare hill running
E. and W. for 3 or 4 miles.
3 YUNSI .. 25 m. General direction NE.
(2,900'). over undulating
ground through a
68
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The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia. (Volume I.) (Khorasan and Sistan.) General Staff India 1928 (Calcutta, Government of India Press, 1928).
The volume contains details of land routes. The information given for each route comprises:
- number of route;
- place names forming starting point and destination of route;
- authority and date;
- number of stage;
- names of stages;
- distance in miles (intermediate and total);
- remarks (including precise details of the route, general geographical information, and information on smaller settlements, local peoples, religious affiliations, condition of roads, access to water, supplies of wood, and other routes).
The volume also contains a map entitled Index Map to Routes in Persia Vol. I ., which shows a region of northern and eastern Persia, indicating routes described in the volume, cities, towns, roads, tracks and paths. The map was printed by the Simla Drawing Office, Survey of India, and includes a printing statement which reads 'S.D.O.S.I. No 5376. June 28.'.
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- 1 volume (264 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume includes a glossary (folios 246-250) and an index (folios 251-263), and provides a map in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folio 265).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 266; 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 volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)'
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