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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [63r] (130/739)
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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71
No. 47— concld*
B ujnuhd to K izil A rvat.
No.
D istances
in miles.
-
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
E emakkh.
4
C handie S teeam
26
90
The W. road ascends the spur at a point known
as Gink Kamar, and crossing it descends in a
JSL W. direction into the valley of the Chandir
tributary.
5
K aea K ala
24
114
Thence passes N. over low hills, presenting
no difficulties, crossing the Ab-i-Sunt tribu
tary of the Atrak, and skirts the W. spurs of
the Sunt Sur mountain to Karakala.
The E. road passes N. from Karai, is slightly
shorter, and more difficult, but it is passable
for horsemen. It crosses the Chandir tribu
tary at a point 16 miles above the W. road,
where are the ruins of a fort, known as the
Kala Duduk, and thence runs N. W. to the
Ab-i-Sunt, and over the Sunt Sur mountain
to Karakala, 44 miles.
6
K izil A evat ...
40
154
Thence to Kizil Arvat is a distance of 40 miles,
28 to the Atrak, by a difficult road skirting the
Dasht, a high plateau extending along the S.
slope of the outer or Atrak range for some dis
tance, and reaching down to the banks of the
Ab-i-Sunt, and passing at 8th mile some ruins
known as Khoja Mahalla. The descent to the
Atrak is said to be easy and practicable for light
guns. From the foot of the hills to Kizil Arvat
is 12 miles N. W. across the plain. Prom Khoja
Mahalla, or Mahallasa, a road passes N. E. to
Bami and Burma, 28 miles distant in the Atrak.
No. 48.
B ujnurd to K uchan,
Authority — S ykes, F ebruary 1893.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
B emaees.
Interme
diate.
Total.
1
B agdamal
15
15
Leaves Bujnurd by the Mashad Gate, and with
the telegraph wires to the south, goes east;
numerous streams in the Bujnurd plain.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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