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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [63] (88/122)
The record is made up of 1 volume (57 folios). It was created in 1895. 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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63
R oute N o . 35—
No.
Names of stages.
D istance iit
milks.
of
stage.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
B smabes.
Murad Su. From here and near the village there
are routes over the hills to the north into Russian
territory. From Tashlija the road continues east
wards along the slopes to the north of the Murad
Su to
11
Uch Kilissa ...
7
135
Uch Kilissa, or Surp Ohannes, important on ac
count of its monastery. The Murad Su is near
this point spanned by a bridge, over which runs
an important route to Van (see Route 39). After
leaving Uch Kilissa the hills to the north recede
and the road runs across a plain, swampy in
places near the Murad Su, to
12
Diadin
10
145
Diadin, the upper part of its course being from
south to north. The road now crosses some stony
high ground which forms a watershed between
the Murad Su Valley and that of the Baluklu Su
at the hamlet of Kotcha, 5 miles off. This is a
good military position ; it then descends into the
plain of the Baluklu Su to
13
K izil Diza ...
15i
160 J
Eizil Diza, when it crosses a stream flowing in a
hill valley from south-west to north-east to join
the Baluklu Su. Up this valley runs the caravan
route to Tabriz, crossing the frontier 10 miles
off at a col. The Bayazid road makes a detour to-
the north, remaining on level ground from about
5,300 feet above the sea, ascends for the last
mile to
14
Bayazid ...
11
1711
Bayazid. This important road is throughout prac
ticable for wheeled military transport. It is being
improved and relaid out, and is in some places
metalled. A line of telegraph runs along the-road,
except between Zeidikan and Kara Kilissa. There-
are two wires as far as Hassan Kala, where one
branches to the right to Mush.
The worst part o£ the road is between
Delibaba and Zeidikan, but in rainy weather some
of the torrents crossed swell up and might be
troublesome, and the Passin and Alashkert plains
are in places liabe to inundation. The above
itinerary is chiefly taken frcm a report by Colo
nel Chermside, R.E. The route is well known and
is being constantly traversed by Europeans, but
most of the traffic turns off at Kizil Diza crossing
into Persia.
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The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia. Section II. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India by Captain J. Vans Agnew, 3rd Madras Lancers (Simla: printed at the Government Central Printing Office, 1895).
The volume contains details of all land routes (numbered 1-50) leading from Turkey-in-Asia into Western Persia between Erzerum [Erzurum] in the north and Basra in the south. 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 pockets attached to the front and back inside covers for index maps of the routes, but only one of these (folio 58), 'Index Map to Routes in Persia. Section II.' (compiled in the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General's Department), dated October 1895, is present.
An ink stamp on the front cover records the confidential nature of the publication and that it was being transmitted for the information of His Excellency the Viceroy (Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin and 16th Earl of Kincardine) only.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (57 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains an alphabetical cross index (folios 5-7); and an alphabetical index to names of places (folios 8-10).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; 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 (except for the front cover where the folio is on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ). This is the sequence used to determine the order of pages.
Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Condition: folio 7 is detached from the volume.
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