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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [33r] (70/739)
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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15
No. 13,
A s TEABAD to THE A t RAK.
Authority — N apier.
No.
Names of stages.
Distances
in miles.
' 1
of
stage.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Eemaeks.
1
2
1
2
Gubgan River
Ateak
Khalid-Paigh-
ambae.
Chat-i-Atrak
12
28
32
14
12
40
32
. 46
From Astrabad to Ak-Kala, north-east, for Smiles,
crossing at 6th mile the Kara Su stream, theuee
4 miles to the Gurgan.
From the Gur^an about north to the Atrak across
which lie the Atrak pastures, extending from
Hasan Kuli on the estuarj of the Atrak, for 10
or 12 miles up stream.
From Gurgan there is a road on to Chat-i-Atrak,
of which the stages are as follows :—
From Gurgan, west following stream for a few miles,
thence north across an undulating plain, and over
a low ridge dividing the two rivers, to Khalid-
Paigharnbar, an Imamzada, on an isolated
hill.
Thence across the plain to the junction of the
Ab-i-Sunt and Chandir, tributaries of the Atrak.
The whole line is described as broken and difficult
ground, much cut up b}" ravmes.
No. 14.
Astrabad to Bujnurd, v IS j the Atralc,
Authority —Sykes, 1893 (February).
No.
Distances
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
[nterme-
diate.
Total.
Remaeks.
>
1
Camp of Moussa
Khan.
250".
14
t • •
Leaving Astrabad by north gate, road is perfectly
level and open : at 3 miles Amirabad, east, of
road ; at 4 miles Karimabad, west of road ; at 4^
miles Muhammadabad, east of road: small villao-es.
At 5 miles the Karasu, a swamp with a slowly
flowing stream, crossed by a really fine bridge, 80
yards in length, with a causeway at each end.
At one mile short of Ak-kala road turns to the
east. The foi\t is said to mount 5 guns and has
a nominal garrison of 1,000 men.
Passes villages of Kibitkas (called Alacbuk). At
14 miles crosses a stream, and soon after reaches
the encampment of Mousa Khan, Chief of the
Ak Ata Bai.
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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).
- Physical characteristics
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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