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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [43r] (90/536)
The record is made up of 1 volume (264 folios). It was created in 1928. 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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Route No. Ill— contd.
merges into a very narrow and rocky tangi and continues along
this for about a mile when it merges into the open hills again.
Soon after this, it passes a very small village called Darvish
Hussain and again a little further on another village with
plenty of water. The road then goes over some rounded hills
and at about the eleventh mile commences to go downhill.
Up to this point the road has a steep upward incline the
whole way. The road now takes a downward trend for
some miles. A little way beyond a pool of water is passed
on the left fed by the brackish stream. After again going
over some more rounded hills the road passes the three small
villages of Kargaz, Ballasangi and Baghun. All very close toge
ther. Prom here the road takes some very steep, up and
down gradients all the time, gradually climbing up. After
a little while another small village with a karez is passed and
a little further on it takes a steep descent into the village of
Aghaldar where there is a small karez.
The road here becomes more level and enters a wide valley
passing another small village called Rhunik possessing a karez
and also a little further on a patch of cultivation with another
karez. The road continues along the valley to the village of
Nuqab where there is plenty of water and culti\ ation. Piom
here to Afzalabad the road passes through cultivation and
orchards. Afzalabad is a fairly large and prosperous village.
The only good defensive position on this road is the nanov
tangi as here the hills are very high and it is the only apparent
road through them ; a small number of men posted at one
end could hold a great many times their own number.
The road is more suitable for mule transport than any
thing else, but is just passable though difficult for camels, but
in any case it is very hard for the animals as the road is con
tinually going up and down some extremely steep slopes.
There is no camel grazing on the way and the cultivation
round the villages is in proportion to their size and appeals
to be only enough to feed the inhabitants. The only iiiel
to be had is from trees growing in the villages. Goats and
sheep are very scarce. Water is plentiful.
The gradients are too steep to allow a satisfactory motor
road to be made and at many places some very heavy banking
and rock work is necessary, especially in the narrow tangi
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The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia. (Volume I.) (Khorasan and Sistan.) General Staff India 1928 (Calcutta, Government of India Press, 1928).
The volume contains details of land routes. 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, religious affiliations, condition of roads, access to water, supplies of wood, and other routes).
The volume also contains a map entitled Index Map to Routes in Persia Vol. I ., which shows a region of northern and eastern Persia, indicating routes described in the volume, cities, towns, roads, tracks and paths. The map was printed by the Simla Drawing Office, Survey of India, and includes a printing statement which reads 'S.D.O.S.I. No 5376. June 28.'.
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- 1 volume (264 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume includes a glossary (folios 246-250) and an index (folios 251-263), and provides a map in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folio 265).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 266; 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 an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:264v, back-i
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