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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [318v] (641/739)
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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578
No. 230—eo?itcl
Tehran to Tiflts, via Tabriz and Jul fa.
Ko
D istances
in miles.
of
sta^e,
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
R emaeks.
21
Tikmadash
12
336
The read is through a country with low hills on
both sides.
22
Cham an Anjan
12
348
The road lies through small plains and rather
uneven ground with low hills on both sides. Cross
a rivulet half-way.
23
Basminj
20
368
The road goes over a hill of considerable length and
steepness, called the Shiblah pass, where many
beasts of burden perish every winter.
24
Tabriz
11
379
The road for 4 miles goes over a level country with
hills on both sides, afterwards through defiles.
At 8 miles cross a rivulet.
Morier gives the following itinerary between Turkmanchai and
Tabriz :—
1 Tikmadash
21
Saidabad
Tabriz
25
U
21
46
60
Road on bearing of N. 40° W. over the same sort,
of country as that which we had crossed the pre
ceding day ; but owing to rain, the ground was
soft. At about the 6th mile we came to a richly
cultivated valley ; the village of Uzamchi about 2
miles on the right. Not a tree all over the
country, but there is generally much cultiva
tion.
Road good. N. 40° W. At 5 miles a villnge. At
about the liOth mile, we entered a pass in the
mountain, on the right of which was a piece of
water. After ascending and descending the pass,
we came to a caravansarai. It contains a square
area of 260 paces of solid construction. We turned
off from the high road to the left, and at about 2|
miles from the caravansarai, reached Saidabad.
There is a scarcity of wood over the whole
country through which we have passed.
Bearing N. 50° W. At 10 miles we came to a
stream running from S. W. to N. E., and sur
rounded by more wood than we ha(l seen all over
the latter part of our journey. The road across
the plain is fine ; about 3 miles from Tabriz it is
intersected by hills of a sandy and stony soil,
MacGregor makes it 364 miles from Tehran to
Tabriz, and he covers that distance in 15 stages.
His route lies through Zindjan, Akkhand, Mianeh
and Tikmadash.
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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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