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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [295v] (595/739)
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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533
No. 226— conid.
T ehran to I spahan, via Post Road,
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Distances
im" miles.
—
Intermc
diate.
Total,
Eemabks.
9
Kon R rr)
7,250'.
30
192
miles, tliere is a newlj-ccmstructed ahamlar,
occasionally empty, close to which there is good
running water in a Tcanat, 60 yards off the road,
the descent into which is by steps, about 60' deep.
A few miles farther on two roads lead to camp at
Kashan. Kashan is a large irregularly built town
with high walls of mud, which are flanked by but-
tresses, generally in ruins. On the south side these
walls sire surrounded by a ditch, and the whole
is falling to pieces/ The trade and manufactures
are considerable, consisting of carpets, copper uten
sils and silks, and the water-supply is good, being
drawn from a few wells, and from three Jcanats,
one coming from Fin, a well-known garden and
palace of Shah Abbas, distant 4 miles, one from
Nasarabad, and the third from the hills. Ka
shan contains a telegraph office, a large building
in a walled garden outside the Darwaza-i-Daolat,
and several caravansarais. Two roads lead to the
town from the direction of Sinsin ; the first fol
lows the telegraph post to the telegraph office; and
the second, a hollow road, turns off to the right,
and passing through various gardens enters one
of the western gates and goes through a line of fine
bazaars to the Darwaza-i-Daolat at the east end.
Supplies abundant of every kind. Encaraping-
ground, 1 mile south of city, near watercouive
flowing through plantations. Curzon thus describ
es Kashan : " one of the most dilapidated cities
in Persia. A more funereal place, I have not yet
seen.' ,
General direction south by east to entrance of
Dara-i-Duzdan pass, thence south by west. Eoad
undulating. Easy ascent over stony ground for
first 5 miles, thence rugged the whole way to
stage. Leaving Kashan telegraph office, the
road runs along a narrow causewayed road be
tween the city and the Birun-i-Shahr, a large
suburb, and then passing several water-mills,
crosses a stony plain to a ruined village at 4 miles,
where there is a good stream of water. Thence
it goes over the same plain, gradually ascending
towards the hills on the right, and at 13 miles
enters the Dara-i-Duzdan pass, with a small forti
fied village at its entrance, and ascends gradually
to Gabarabad, a small caravansarai at 15 miles.
Ihe road is in places rocky, and runs along the
left bank of a deep ravine to a small plateau
commanding the pass, on which the caravansarai
is built. The water at the bottom of the nullah
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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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