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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [26r] (56/739)
The record is made up of 1 volume (367 folios). It was created in 1898. 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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No. r.
Amol to Astrabad, vid Barfarush, Sari and Ashtaf,
Authority —Holmes.
No.
Names of stages#
Distances
IN MILES.
i —
of
stage.
Interme.
diate.
Total.
Bbmaeks.
1
B aefarush
22
22
Connects with Route Ho. 2.
Proceeded across the plain in a general direction
N. E. by E, The road in most places was very bad ;
the plain, as far as one could judge at this season,
appeared a series of rice-fields, divided by hedges
of brambles and tall reeds, which are so high and
close, that from the road the whole country ap
peared covered with a thick, low jungle. Once
or twice came upon a part of Shah Abbas' an
cient causeway, which is here only to be dis
tinguished by a few ^ yards of hard, paved road,
occasionally interrupting the broken and muddy
track. After nearly 5 farsahhs, came to the
Babil, 2 miles from Barfarush. Crossing over
fine bridge of nine arches, continued a^short
distance farther over a villainous road, and then
entered the town.
2
A liabad
12
•
34
Started for Aliabad, a village about half-way
between Barfarush and Sari. Road lay throuo-h
alternate jungle and rice-fields along the remains
of causeway. This, for an occasional 200 or
300 yards, was almost as good as new; but the
remainder was broken up, or, wherever it had
been disused for a short time, totally overgrown
by the encroaching jungle, and the path turned
aside among the neighbouring swamps. At
about 10 miles from Barfarush forded the river
Talar, now almost dry ; the bed is nearly 350
yards across. After 12 miles, entered Aliabad.
3
S aiu
14
48
Proceeded along causeway for about 4 miles, to
river Siah-rud, a small stream, crossed by means
of a bridge. Wherever there have been water
courses, there have been originally bridges, which
in most places are now destroyed, and it is in
these parts, that the causeway is so broken up.
During this march it was in much better condil
tion than between Aliabad and Barfarush. Itia
of different width in different places, but gen
erally about 20 feet, with a ditch on each side.
After passing the Siah-rud, turned off into forest
and, having crossed several large patches of r i C Q
swamp, arrived at village of Afrakut, the prop er ^
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The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia. Section III. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India (Simla: printed at the Government Central Printing Office, 1898).
The volume contains details of all land routes (numbered 1-247) in Persia starting from Russian territory and extending south as far as a line drawn from Karmanshah [Kermānshāh] south-eastwards through Burujird [Borūjerd], Isfahan [Eşfahān] and Yazd to Karman [Kermān], and thence north-east to Khabis [Khabīş] and Neh to Lash Juwain [Lāsh-e Juwayn].
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, agriculture, condition of roads, access to water, supplies of wood, and other routes).
An appendix within the volume (folios 356-359) and two separately-stored sets of loose sheets (containing routes numbers 77 (a) and 140-A, folios 363-369) give information too late for incorporation in the body of the work.
The volume also contains pockets attached to the front and back inside covers for maps. These consist of an index map showing the limits of each of the three sections of Routes in Persia (folio 2) and an index map to the routes in Section III (folio 361). There is also a fold-out map of the route from Seistan [Sīstān] to Mashad on folio 232.
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.
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- 1 volume (367 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains an alphabetical cross index (folios 6-17), and an alphabetical index to names of places (folios 18-25).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates on the last page of the loose supplementary sheets (found in the small grey folder within the main folder); 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 a printed pagination sequence.
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