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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [230r] (464/739)
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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405
No. 186— contd.
Sehkoha. to Mash ad, via DeJi-i-Dost Muhammad, Zainulahad, fyc.
No.
Distaitcbs
in miles.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Bbuibeb.
•
hot weather. Road is narrow just below the
crest for some distance, but is otherwise good.
A spring of water is passed at about the tenth
mile. Karat consists of a small fort with ditch
and walls in good condition, containing some
thirty families.
Supplies scarce ; water good from a Tear ex which
irrigates about eight ploughs of land.
31
32
Hashtadtjn
(Kulukh
Pardai).
Taiabad
16
13
930
943
Road good going the whole way. Taiabad said to
contain five hundred houses and one hundred
ploughs of land. Supplies plentiful and water
good from several karezes.
b3
Reza.
14
957
Road led across the open plain thp whole way,
the villages of Mashad and Riza being visible
in the distance almost directly after leavmg Tai
abad. Riza contains about 200 families and has
three kanats of water and forty-five ploughs of
land. Mashad, the adjoining village, contains
some seventy families and has two kanats oi
water and twenty-five ploughs.
34
Shahh-i-Nao
19
976
Road led over an undulating plain the whole
way. The village, which is the head-quarters of
the Bakharz district, now contains some 200
houses and has forty ploughs of land. Our road
led us past a high mound or tepe showing the
site of some ancient castle.
Shahr-i-Nao is well watered, and the numerous
gardens and orchards are said to produce really
every kind of fruit known in these parts.
35
Himmataba® ...
15
991
Road led up valley through the centre of the
Bakharz district. We passed through continuous
villages and cultivation almost the whole way.
Supplies scarce. Water good from a stream.
36
Shahn-i-Bala
12
1,003
Road led up valley across an open plain to
village of Aliek, and thence some 2 miles
beyond along the bed of a nullah, through low,
undulating ground, and is good going the whole
way except in heavy rain.
Aliek contains some 30 families with 18 ploughs of
land, and Shahn-i-Bala 20 families with 16
ploughs of land. Supplies scarce. Water good
from a spring and karez.
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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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