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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [72v] (149/536)
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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136
Route No. V— contd.
good water known as Hauz-i-Haft and is used as a halting
place.
Water. —Good.
6 PUSHT-I- 17 m. General direct ion
BADAM. NNE. Start as-
109J (SjSOO')- cending gently and
easily towards the mountains that bound the plain on the N.
Road hard and good. At 4f miles is a hauz containing very
good cold water. A low jagged black hill lies close on right.
At 7 miles altitude is 4,610 feet. Beyond this the ascent is
even more gentle than before, being only 100 feet per mile.
Leaving black hill behind the country is now broken, and rough
extending 3 or 4 miles to right, to bases of a rugged, red
mountain that gives the name to the Gudar. On left are
mounds of black limestone veined with quartz. Road runs
close under these, ascending a dry water-course, the limestone
mounds become larger, till they assume proportions of good
sized hills. After this road winds about amongst low hills
on both sides, and the summit of the Gudar-i-Surkh (“ the
red pass ”) is gained at 8| miles. Altitude 4,890 feet. Road
now descends a dry water-course; in some places imprac
ticable for wheeled artillery, as the track is narrow with steep
banks on each side ; but these are of clay, and it w'ould be
easy for a few men to make a road. Road winds about in a
general NNE. direction with clay mounds on both sides, des
cending the dry bed of a watercourse. Further on the country
gets more open, but still there are hills close on both sides.
Road stony in places. At 11 miles descend into Pusht-i-
Badam valley. Which opens out into plain. The road at
first is near the mountains on left, but the robdt lies near a
spur from those on right. From the Gudar, road at first
descends somewhat more steeply than usual; but soon
there is the usual gentle gradient. Plain is about 3 miles
wide. At 16 miles the villages of Mazra’eh Bala and
Hajiabad lie close under the hills on left about a mile away.
One of these villages has a tower. They both lie close toge
ther. At 17 miles arrive at the
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
or robot of Pusht-
-i-Badam. This is a good building of brick, new, and in
good order. The village has 200 houses. There is a good
deal of cultivation.
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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)
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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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