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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [263r] (530/739)
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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4G7
No. 21 \~~'Contd.
T abriz io K armanshah, via Binah> Lai Ian, fyc.
No.
of
etage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
R emabks.
Interme
diate.
Total,
-
Binah to Lallan. Binab to Lailan, a dis
tance of 28 miles, a comparatively level tract of
country is traversed. To the left of the road are
low hills, to the right, a plain, stretching away
for 20 to 30 miles to Myandab, a large village
of the Suj Bulak district, and to the foot of the
range separating Myandab from Suj Bulak.
On a small tributary of the Jaghatu, dry in autumn,
is the considerable village of Maiikandi with
some eight or ten others, having large gardens
and wide tracts of corn land in cultivation. At
Myandab, grain is said to be abundant.
Maiikandi is the last large village, with the ex
ception of Bijar, that is to be found on the route
till the province of Karmanshah is reached.
Along the route, and about the eastern portion of
the feuj Bulak district, are a considerable num
ber of nomad camps, from which camels might
be procured. In summer, the camps would be
found further east in the mountains.
In the village of Suj Bulak, and nowhere else in
the length and breadth of Persia, there are many
rough two-wheeled carts, adapted however only
for use in the plain.
Forage, equally with grain, would be procurable
in large quantities in the western portion of the
district.
Water is scarce only in the barren tracts to the
east.
The only natural fuel procurable on the route after
leaving Maiikandi, till the valley of the Jaj;hatu
is reached, is a small thorny shrub found on the
plain, which serves well for the purpose, but is
difficult to collect. /
In the " Kishlaks " or winter campsof the nomads,
large quantities,of this fuel and also of " Tapala,'*
or cakes of camels' dung, may be found collected
during autumn and early winter.
The village of Lailan is a fair type of the villages
on the elevated portion of the district. It.stands
on a nearly level plain, irrigated to a very small
extent, and barren enough to appearance else
where, but capable of producing fine crops of
wheat with sufficient and seasonable rain.
There are no gardens or vineyards to screen the
village, and the mud houses are of one single
storey, with a small enclosure for cattle. The
whole covers a small extent of ground, and could
not be held for half an hour against a force pro
vided with guns.
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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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