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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [203v] (411/739)
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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No. 177— con til.
Sakiz io Kaumanshah, via SUakh,
Bo,
of
stage.
Names of stages
Distances.
in miles.
Interme- ,
diate. Total,
6i
120
121
Remaeks.
(August) 20 yards wide and 8" deep, running in
a wide gravelly bed, 150 to 200 yards wide. Most
of the water is led away into irrigation canals.
Elev. 4,725/
Pass Grizah, a village of 150 houses, J mile to the
left, in a large grove of orchards and cultivation.
Soil fertile, a rich gravelly loam. Some strata of
soft, shaly limestone crop out here and there.
Road is a broad easy track, rounding the ends of
several spurs from Kuh-i-Lailagh to the left, and
distant 300 to 400 yards from the left bank of
the river.
On the right bank, 4 miles distant, is a high coni
cal hill rising aboye^the rest of the range. Not
far from the summit, near a spring, is the small
village of Hasaiiabad. Below, extending to the
Sena river, is a fertile, well-cultivated valley, Ij
miles broad, containing several orchards and vine
yards. Webb mentions his having encamped
near a hill fortress about i mile from the village.
He found the road stony.
Pass ruins of small village of Gamishan at the end
of a spur to tlie left, now quite deserted. The
river fordable at any point at this time of year.
Pass a large spring by the roadside. The actual
river valley is about J mile wide. On the right
bank are a succession of steep rounded ridges, and
on the left broad terraces, one above the other,
which increase the width of the valley 2 to 3
miles.
Large crops of rice are grown along the river-
banks, irrigated by canals.
Numerous small springs and plenty of water in the
side ravines. Crops of fine melons and pumpkins
are grown by the roadside intended to be sold to
thirsty passers-by and travellers. A dozen can
be got for a kran (7o?.),
Pass Wishkhadar, a village on the right bank, of
100 houses, surrounded by orchards and gardens
and situated at the end of a fertile, well culti
vated valley, 3 miles deep, running into the range
to the right.
Pass Kala Shakani a curious mound by the river-
bank standing 50' high and 100 yards in <lia-
meter. It is formed of conglomerate with the
interior hollowed into a cave 'SO' long and 15'
wide.
Passed some gardens of cucumbers, water -melons
and pumpkins.
Eiver valley gradually narrowing to about J mile
wide. Pass small
village
orchards in a
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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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