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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [202v] (409/739)
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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aso 5
No. 177 — contd.
Sakiz to Kaumanshah, via ShlaJch, Rengrazal, tyc.
No.
of
Btage.
Names of stages;
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Bbmabks.
12
95
17
20|
105
103 *
Turn up out of valley and ascend to left by two
long easy zigzags, and then reach a broad spur
coming from a high conical hill, 3 miles to the
north-east. Elev. 8,000'.
Commence descent winding round the liead of a
deep valley to the right.
Gross the spur and descend north side of a long:
spur. Eoad a broagl, clay track, 12' to 15' wide.
Several small donkey caravans met carrying
" gavvan" for firewood, into Sihna. Elev.
7,730':
Down head of flat valley, well cultivated, 200 to*
800 yards wide. Numerous springs in the hill;
slopes. Elev. 7,535'.
Cross spur, inclining to the south, and pass a lar^e
spring with an abundant supply of clear cold
water. Elev. 7,230^
Running north-east is a deep narrow valley, the
slopes of which are thickly cultivated. A few
vineyards visible. Broad easy track now.
Along the side of the spur, the valley lying f
mile to the eastward. Rich soil growing patches-
of wheat, maize and cotton, watered by springs
from the hillside. Enter a thickly cultivated,
populous district now.
Pass a village, 1 mile to left, of 60 houses, called'
Chattar, deep down in a narrow stream valley.
Reach head of long gradual ascent ; cross a low
spur and descend small valley with easy shelving:
sides. Elev. 6,950'.
Reach foot of valley and join another wider one
from the north-west. The road from Sulaima--
niah comes down this. (Section 11.)
Pass through large village of Dowiza, consisting of
300 houses situated partly on the hillside.
The bottom of the valley is filled with fine
orchards and vineyards, and watered by nume
rous irrigation cuts from the streams.
Cross stream in narrow gravelly bed and commence
long gradual ascent following a broad valley.^
A good deal of wheat and barley was passed.
Elev. 5,760'.
Pass prominent conical hill, rocky, 1 mile to the •
east (left).
Soil a slaty shale mixed with clay.
To the left is a cultivated basin, 1J miles in diame
ter and in the centre is the large village of Kua-
khan of 150 houses. Elev. 6,335'.
Road leads over a broad ridge at the head of the'
valley, and descends gradually, having a deep wide'
valley to the south-east.
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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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