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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [102r] (208/739)
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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h9
No. 82— contd,
I sfahan to S ultanta, via Kashan, Knm, and Ziahacl.
Names of stages.
D istances
IN miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
R bmabks.
6
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K aeim D asht
19
94
Seven miles of the road over stonj and uneven
ground ; ranges of mountains on the left and right
for 12 or 13 miles. Here pass a caravansarai
and a small stream of water on the right ; imme
diately after cross a ravine; road then leads
over a plain for 7 miles; the range of mountains
on the left stretches away to north-west, and those
on the right approach the road. For the next 2
miles the road lies between small hills and over
an uneven country ; it then becomes stony for
about 3 miles; the mountains on the right are
about a mile and a half or 2 miles distant ;
those on the left, 10 or 12 miles.
6
K ashas
3;2t)0 ? ,
Hi
1054
Road level, across a stony plain. The hills on the
right are about 10 miles distant; those on the
left between 3 and 4 miles. Baugfin lies 3 miles
west by south of Kashan. Kashan is situated
in a stony plain on the edge of the great salt
plain. It is about 3 miles in length, by 1| in
breadth, and is surrounded by a dry ditch. It
contains about 30,000 souls.
7
SlNSlN
27
132i
At 2f miles entered the high road. At 14 miles
pass a caravansarai and village on the rio-ht.
The road then lies through a plain ; the moun
tains on the right stretch away to the west; those
on the left about 2i miles distant. About 1
furlong from the caravansarai at Sinsin cross
a rivulet, Sinsin is now quite in ruins.
8
K um
3,200'.
89
1714
At 5 miles pass a ruined village on the left; at
8 miles further another village on the left, a
rivulet crossing the road. Thus far the road lies
over uneven ground, with low hills on both sides.
At 16 miles further pass a caravansarai on the
rmht called PasansMn.
Road over a plain, with hills on the left, distant
about 2 or 3 miles; on the right an extensive
plain, with a range of mountains about 20 or 30
miles distant. At 8 miles further a garden on
the right, with a rivulet crossing the road. Kum
is situated in a plain, with a river running north
of the town.
9
S aveh oe S avab
3,000'.
40
211|
At 11 miles enter a salt desert. About a mile fur
ther a small hill on the left and an extensive plain
covered with salt on the right. At 5 miles fur
ther low jungle, which continued for half a mile.
A village at half a mile further on the left called
Mujidabad. Eoad from this, over a plain for 11
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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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