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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [287v] (579/739)
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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516
1
No. ^%%—Qonld.
T ehran to A nzalt, vidKishlaJc, Kasvin,
No.
Distaitces
in milks.
of
jitage.
Names of stages.
Interme.
diate.
Total.
Kemiuks.
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and autumn. From Pachinara road following:
this stream is said to reach the upper plateau of
Persia, i.e., the Kasvin plain, by a much easier
gradient than that of the Karza, and if a
railway was to be constructed from Rasht to
Tehran, it would probably follow this route.
The fact, however, of a narrow gorge having to
be passed which becomes impracticable on the
rising of the stream, renders the Karza pass
preferable for traffic. At Pachinar there are a
few houses in addition to the chaparkhanah and
caravansarai, and some cultivation is seen along
the bank of the river, which is a branch of the
Safed Rud, the stream crossed by the road at
Pachinar falling into it. Provisions scarce.
During spring, however, lambs, sour milk, etc.,
can sometimes be purchased from the nomads
who are fond of camping in this neighbourhood.
The water here is rather liable to give dysentery.
From Pachinar the road runs along the left
bank of the river for a distance of one farsakh,
when it is crossed by means of a stone bridge
similar to that at Karij. For the next 2 far-
sakhs the road follows the direction of the river,
sometimes descending into the dry portions of
its bed, and then ascending the mountain side
for a few hundred feet. The road then leaves
the course of the river and undulates through
hillocks for one farsakh, when the large village
or small town of Manzil is reached. The river
is sometimes unfordable for ten days together.
9
M ANZZL
1G
152
Manzil from its position in the mountains is sub
ject to high winds. It has a chaparkhanah,
caravansarai, native telegraph office, several
shops, and a goodly number of houses. Olive
trees flourish, and there is a good deal of cultivar
tion. Provisions are plentiful. Half a farsakh
from Manzil the Safed Rud is peached. Two or
three years ago two arches of the brick bridge,
which here crosses the river, were washed away,
and the Persians seem unable to effectually repair
the damage; several attempts have been made
and efforts are still being made to substantially
rebuild the broken arches, but unfortunately the
work of the modern Persian has heretofore proved
insufficiently strong to withstand the force of
the river when in flood. The piers of this bridge
are intact, and a wooden roadway, nine or ten
feet wide, has been erected alongside the bridgo
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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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