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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [323r] (650/739)
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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587
No. ^83— conelcl.
Tun to Naiband^ vi & Chahar Gumhaz, Luhtth and Ab-i- Garm,
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
Remarks.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Naiband at 31 miles is a fair-sized village of some
100 houses; it was planted as an outpost against
the Baluchis. The inhabitants make their living
by importing corn, etc., and reselling it to travel
lers, as they only grow enough corn for their
own consumption, although they have generally
a large surplus of dates.
At 26 miles the camel route takes a course about a
mile longer over perfectly level ground and joins
the Birjand road about a mile from the outskirts
of the village.
The whole country is suffering from drought as
may be seen from the fact that most of the haozes
are dry : also nearly all their sheep have died,
only the goats surviving. No camels at Nai
band, only a few very fine donkeys. From Tun
to Naiband the only part offering the slightest
difficulty for wheels is the belt of hills, 6 miles
from Naiband. The late governor of Karman is
said to have sent three carriages the whole dis»
tance from Karman to Ma shad and evidently
by going a mile or two more to east, a perfectly-
flat plain would be found.
Naiband is very important as being the meeting
point of the Mashad, Herat, Birjand, Sistan,
Karman and Yazd roads. Its water-supply is
ample and very good, but once outside the village
there is only the very scantiest grazing, whence
no camels.
No. 234.
Tun to Nishabur, via Bardashand.
Authority —MacGregor.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
D istances
in miles.
R smabes.
Interme
diate.
Total.
6
6
7
8
Saudadi
Naubala-Khana
Baedaskand ...
Bijwat •>.
76
21
21
14
76
97
118
132
See route No. 235, stages 1 to 5.
Village, with water and supplies.
Koad through waste. Village with water and
supplies.
Road through cultivation. Village with water f^nd
supplies.
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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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