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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [266v] (537/739)
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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474
No. 211— conoid.
Tabriz to Karmanshah, viti Binah, Lallan fyc.
No.
of ^
•tage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
K emaeis.
[nterme-
diate.
Total.
placed in the market after the last harvest (1875)
at the low price of eight krans per kbarwar.
Wheat was, late in the year as November, unsale
able, and it was stated that many large landown
ers had their granaries filled with wheat of the
preceding year, which must be given to the cattle,
or even burnt, to make room for the new crop.
Except in seasons of extreme scarcity, the country
might be relied on to supply a very large force
in all that would be necessary to enable it to
traverse the barren tracts beyond.
Mules, camels, and horses are owned and bred
in large numbers, and corn and forage are plenti
ful.
No. 212.
Tabriz to Rasht, via A/iar, Ardahil and Astara.
Authority —Holmes; Todd.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
R emaeks.
Interme- ,
diate. Total.
1
K HWAJTA
20
20
North-east. On quitting Tabriz, the road for
about 1 mile runs along the right bank of the'
Bosmieh river, and then ascending, approaches
the hills to the N. E. of the city. At 6
miles reach the summit of the ascent, which is
stony, and in some places exceedingly steep. The
descent is shorter and less steep than the ascent,
and leads into a fine cultivated valley. The
road level and free from stones. The village of
Khwaja contains about 60 or 70 houses. Holmes
travelled via Borinj (6 miles), and mentions
passing village of Ghainband, of some 20 houses,
about 12 miles, situated on left, at foot of hills ;
he also crossed a brackish but drinkable rivulet.
Both accounts mention the Aji Chai, a fcrdable
salt-river. Holmes calls the country barren.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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