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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [197v] (399/536)
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. V (u) — contd.
5 SHlRKHIST .. 28 m. General direction^ S.
_ Road starts SSE.
87 j over a mixture of
Icamr and gravel soil, which becomes in passable after heavy
rain, and is very bad at any time. At 2 miles wind in and
out of the running water-courses and kandts of Dastgardun
which lies on the right. Valley on the right is open, forming
a large plain dotted with villages. At 5J miles pass a hauz
containing muddy water. At 6| miles pass another similar.
At 10J miles pass 2 villages about 4 or 5 miles off at the bottom
of a valley. A large ridge of sand runs from them in a NNW.
direction, on which there is grazing for sheep. At 18| miles pass
some mud hovel and a kandt, mile off to the right. Amina-
bad is visible in a SE. direction under the hills on the opposite
side of the valley. At 22 miles a road comes in on the left
rear from Nishapur. Good road ascending very slightly. At
28 miles Shirkhist. Road this stage passable for- all arms and is
good except for the first 2 miles and a bit near Dastgardun.
where the going is heavy. A long way off the road there is
camel grazing and scrub throughout the march, but it is too
small for good firewood.
See Route V, stage 12.
6 CHAHAR DEH 22 m. General direction S.
At 3 miles pass a
109£- hauz 200 yards off to
the right. At 4| miles, a road from Aminabad comes in from
the left rear. Road gently rising passes over undulating ground,
which culminates it a low watershed. Descend and round
the foot of a hill to the left. Leaving the hills the road runs
over ground much cut up by dry water-courses, which is reached
after passing down a broad stony slope between two water
courses. Ground is stony, but is partially cleared of loose
stones as this is the road used by the Governor of Tabas when
he drives to Meshed. At 8 miles pass a hauz 21 feet by 7 feet
containing muddy water 6 feet from the surface. At 11| miles
pass a dry hauz. At 12J miles descent becomes less steep.
At 16 miles pass a dry hauz. At 18£ miles pass a large village,
1 mile off to the right. At 19 miles there are numerous bushes
forming an abundant supply of firewood, 1,000 yards off to
the right. Into Chahar Deh by a good road descending gently
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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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