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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.' [87] (112/122)
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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90
87
R oute N o . 45—
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istance in
miles.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
E emaeks.
17
B esitun
38
Kaemanseah...
20
3221
342
Bear south-south-west across plain.
At 1 mile cross small stream Jan-nisar bv stone
bridge, 3 arches^ 17 feet wide, and enter defile
Tang-i-Dinawar enclosed by inaccessible cliffs
800 to 1,000 feet in length.
Follow stream formed by junction of Kangarshah
stream with Jan-msar on narrow tortuous path
flanked left by stream and dense thickets of
willow, right by cliffs, defile to half mile wide •
path bad, but easily improveable, *
At 3 miles, following windings of defile, pass ham-
let or Husemabad : dehle
openiDg,
At 51 m
dlespass Chashma Surkhah, 5 houses, left.
At 8i miles pass Mazarian, 15 houses, on road
and Azan Ozan, 20 houses, 1 mile left • defilp
opens into cultivated valley, li miles left.' "
At 10 miles, pass Barnach, 40 houses, mile
right with strong new fort on mound, having
double curtain wall of mud, about 150 yards and
80 jards in ength, and masonry flanking towers •
commanded by hill slope at short distance.
At 12 miles, Marankoh, 30 houses, J mile left.
At 12J miles, pass Bahirabad, J mile l e ft N
juviran, 20 houses, li miles right. '
At 13 miles, pass Kashantu, 50 houses, i m :i P
'eft; an d Uf miles cross small stream, unford-
able, with muddy bottom, by small stone bridge
3 arches, 15 feet wide. ^ '
At 14i miles, pass Haiderabad, 10 houses i
fmikle'tf 151 mileS, ^bad^S
At 17i miles, pass mound Sangar-i-X^iri, and
strike into high road and telegraph line from
Teheran to Karmanshah. Thence to Besitun
x mile. '
Eoad throughout good; where narrow easily
proveable. ■ ^
Distance thence to Karmanshah about 20 miles
This route is by no means direct.
im-
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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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- 'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:16, 1:94, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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