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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [169r] (342/739)
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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283
No. J 49— conid.
Mashad to Tehran^ via Nishzhur, Sabzawar, fyc*
D istances
No.
iir miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
E emaeks.
4 Zaminabad ... 16 82 Route west-south-west over the plain, by a good,
easy road ; en route passed many square little
forts on either hand; each contains some 60 or
60 houses and surrounded by cornfields. In 2
hours and 12 minutes, came to the ruins of the
Hasanabad village, and beyond, passing over
a loose soil white with salines, in one hour ar
rived at a muddy stream, crossed by a good brick
and mortar bridge, and then passing over a moist,
slippery, saline tract of clay, in 25 minutes
reached Zaminabad, a fortified village of 80
houses, surrounded by cornfields. Water brack
ish from karez streams.
^ Shoeab 9 91 Route west-north-west, by a good track over a
gently rising pasture tract, called Dasht-i-Garmab,
on to an uneven, ridgy hillskirt, towards the
Garmab range of hills.
In hours after crossing a ridgy undulating tract
and leaving the little Zarwand forts in a nook
to the right of course, descended into a small
hollow, and crossing its moist, sandy ravine rose
on to other ridges. Beyond this, passing over a
broken country with hills on either side, descend
ed into a second hollow and came to Shorab.
Time from ravine 25 minutes. Shorab is a forti
fied village of 60 houses on the edge of a ravine.
There is a post-house here, and an excellent new
ahambar near a large sarai in course of erection.
6 Zafaeani 18 109 Route nearly due west, over very uneven ground
and crossing numerous little drainage gullies.
In 1 hour and 20 minutes reached a low water
shed ; a few deserted huts here on the left of the
road. From this the road descends along the
course of a moist and gravelly ravine, and in 55
minutes turned out of the ravine to the left at
the sarai Kaladar, where is a village of 60 houses
near some good springs of fresh water. Village
is called Sangi. From the sarai we proceeded
due west down a hillskirt on to the plain of
Sabzawar. In 1 hour passed an ahamhar, and
in 1 hour and 5 minutes more reached Zafa-
rani, a walled village of 120 houses. A good
sarai and post-house.
7 S abzawa E m * 24 133 Route due west across the plain. The surface un
dulates gently. The soil is firm and gravelly.
| In 1 hour and 10 minutes passed an dbamhar, and
/ a little way off to the left two little village forts,
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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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