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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [68r] (140/536)
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. IV— cont ..
moderate hills with several long stretches of open ground to
pass 31,950 feet at 11 miles ; Hauz-i-Shaikh at 10 miles, empty.
Road near pass narrow, but easily widened ; at 17 miles Hauz-i-
Rhan, empty since 1890. Road good for wheels.
Water. — Nil.
7 CHEHILPAI .. 23 m. General direction SW.
(4,420'). At 9 miles remark-
137 able hills with
scarped sides, road as if between two walls. At 18 miles reach
what seems to be a wall of rock. The road enters it by what
appears to be a nala-hed, | to 1 mile wide, from cliff to cliff. The
-cliffs are formed by a limestone cap overlying unconformable
blue clay bed, interspersed with strata of shale. It is a very
curious place. Bed, up which road went, gradually narrowed,
cliffs approaching one another more closely. Passed an imper
ceptible watershed, and then descended through a similar nala
to Chehilpai. Here is a good serai, a dry hauz and the well,
all situated in the bed of this curious nala, which is here
perhaps | mile wide, with cliffs on either hand. The road the
whole way was very well-marked, being greatly used by pil
grims. There were generally five or six well-worn tracks abreast.
From the Naiband kutal to Chehilpai it is perfectly easy for
guns. The Lut on the western side of the Naiband range
appears to be much more hilly than to be eastward, rides of
-detached hills being scattered over it, with next to no vegetation.
All supplies, etc., must be carried ; firewood is very scarce.
Water. —Well at Chehilpai is 87 feet below surface. It is
approached by an inclined tunnel, down which steps (40 in
number) are cut in the rock, more or less rough. It is very
troublesome to water animals from, as the water has to be carried
up these steps. Watering 36 miles and 6 horses about dried
it out, but it filled up fairly well again in about 6 hours.
Fuel. —Scanty.
Fodder. —Practically nil.
Supplies. — Nil.
8 DARBAND .. 23 m. General direction
(3,800'). SSW. Road follows
160 the course of the
nala for 3 miles, and then straight across desolate plain ; no
E 2
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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)
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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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