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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [190v] (385/739)
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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820
No. 169—
Pi chinar to A kbaba, via Bekendi,
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istanchs
ik milks,
R emaeks,
Interme
diate.
Total.
2
Akbaba
12
38
Tlie Persian telegraph line between Rasht and
Tehran follows this road.
Bekendi is a small village with about 2,000 inha
bitants ; provisions are in abundance, such as
bread, cheese, milk, eggs, honey and fruit ; meat
is procurable at times.
From Bekendi to Akbaba is about 12 miles;
there is a very fair road, much the same as the
Kasvin-Akbaba one.
About four miles out of Bekendi, the road crosses
a low range of sand-hills, and at six miles from
that place is a small village called Kuhin. Just
before reaching Kuhin a road branches off to the
left to Mazeran.
Taking the^ two routes, the Karza one is prefer
able, as it is eight miles less and there is a made
road. A very good road could easily be made
via Bekendi.
For a railway the Bekendi route would undoubt
edly be followed, as it is nearly level the whole
way, the only difficulty being the gorge referred
to, while the Karza has a sudden ascent up to a
height of seven or eight thousand feet.
No. 170.
P esh E obat (T oman A gha) to S arakhs, via Zorabad, Ful-i-Khatun and
Naorozabad.
L essar ; C ondie S tephen.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
imt miles.
R emaeks.
Interme
diate.
Total.
1
1
1
Lessar gives the following account of his march
down the Hari-Rud
There are three roads leading from Dogaru to Zura-
bad. One of these crosses the river, and turns
the defile of the Hari-Rud, leading back to the
Persian bank of the river near Zurabad. The
main drawbacks of this road are the two crossings
over the river, which are not practicable at all
times of the year. Moreover, it is said, they
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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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