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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [133r] (270/739)
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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211
no, 115— contd.
K haraki (on the A trak) to the G urgan R iver, via Shahahad.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
ik" miles,
E bmibks,
Interme
diate.
Total.
10
C hakur
B atndae
600'.
8
16
108
124
Road leads on down tlie valley, liere an open grassy-
plain a mile or more in width, and gradually
widening till at Chakur the hills came to an end,
and there is nothing beyond but a vast plain
gradually sloping west. Almost the whole
valley is uncultiyated. The soil is excellent and
requires no irrigation, but owing to the want
of population miles and miles of beautiful land
are lying waste.
This was not the case formerly, as 5 miles below
Shaghal Tapa are the ruins of Shahrak and an
old cemetery said to have belonged to the Garelis.
There are also various old Tapas about.
From Chakur march north round the end of the
hills to the valley of the Gurgan, and then up the
banks of that river to the head.quarters of the
Baindar section of the Goklans camp.
The road leads over bare undulating country
covered with dry grass round the foot of the
hills, till the Gurgan river at the 12th mile.
Two miles out cross the Ab-i-Dahana at Gnzar-i-
Dagh, and 3 or 4 miles beyond that the Ab-i-
Karezli coming down from a little valley of its
own.
Goklan Obahs scattered about all along tbe road
mostly of the Kirikh section which number some
400 families altogether. Like all Turkomans
the Goklans have neither trees, gardens, water or
fields anywhere near their settlements, the
Kibitkas being simply struck down in the middle
of the bare dry plain, the only difference between
the Goklans and other Turkomans being that the
former seem to have a partiality for putting their
Kibitkas in straight rows, which the others, have
not. The women have to fetch the water up
from the nearest supply whatever the distance.
The Gurgan river where it is crossed about 20 to 30
feet in width and 6 inches in depth, but it flows
very low down in a large deep bed, some quarter
of a mile in width, and quite 100 feet below the
level of the surrounding country.
The Baindar settlement consists of five Gbahs
containing from 100 to 140families and occupies
both banks of the Gurgan just after it issues
from the bills. Baindar consequently is not the
name of any fixed spot, and going to Baindar
means simply going to any of the Obahs occupied
by the Baindar section. Thermometer at 4 p.m,
71.°
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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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