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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [131r] (266/739)
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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207
No. 115.
K haraki (on the A trak) to the G ukgan R iveb, vid Shahabad.
Authority — Y ate , O ctober and N ove^bkr 1894.
No.
D istances
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of stnges.
Interme
diate.
Total
E emaeks.
1
Bashkala
2,100'.
13
...
The road crosses the river 4 miles up, and leads
up the left bank to Peshkala, which is a good-
sized village containing about 100 houses and
surrounded with gardens and vineyards.
A stream passes through the village, which the
people called the Abi-Simalghan.
Temperature of Peshkala at 4 p.m. 80°.
2
Shahabad
2,800'.
11
24
Road leads south up the valley for the first 2 miles
to the village of Buij, the last village in this
direction of the Mana valley. Then crosses the
low ranges of hills, through which the stream
forces its way, and descends again into tho
level circular-looking Simalghan valley, arriving
at Darband, the first Simalghan village, some
2 miles further on.
Nearly 2 miles beyond Darband passed to the east
of the village of Kirik, and 2 miles beyond that
the village of Aishkhana. Shahabad is a village
containing about ICO houses, and is now the
head-quarters of the Simalghan* district. The
site of the village was changed about six years
•ago, and the ruins of the former houses and
walls are all still standing about half a mile to
the north. Temperature at 4 p.m. 79°.
Joins here main road, Bujnurd to Astrabad.
3
Shaharabad ...
3,100'.
9
33
Road leads along southern side of the Simalghan
valley—the hills here show the first signs of
wood, the northern slopes being covered with
low trees called Mazu. Half-way pass ruined
village of Haidarabad. Shaharabad lies a mile
or so to north-west of the entrance to the
Darkash Pass. Thermometer at 4 p.m. 83°.
4
Chaman-i-Bid ...
6,000'.
12
45
Road leads up the Darkash Pass. The ascent is
very gradual and the road is passable for wheeled
traffic throughout. The Ala Dagh range on the
south terminates at the. Darkash Pass, and the
Kurkhud range here commences and extends
eastwards gradually rising in height.
At first the hills have no wood on them, but
further east junipers commence to show, till at
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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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