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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [69r] (142/536)
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. lY—contd.
10 RAVAR .. 21 m. General di r e c t i o n
^ {3,730'). slightly W. of S. first
194 ^ 6 miles of the road
are very difficult, winding and twisting through narrow
guffies. At 8 miles hauz (empty). At 13 miles Ismailabad,
small village ; good, spacous serai with stream of brackish water
close by ; supphes, fuel, and forage. At 15 miles Karimabad,
a small hamlet. Here cultivation begins soil being very light
and sandy, but water supply from the western range is plentiful
From Karimabad across cultivated plain to Ravar, 21 miles
a big village surrounded by orchards. It has a bazar and some
1,500 houses, but is liable to be flooded. Good serai. Wheat
and barely cultivated here, also date-palms. It is the head of a
district. Caravans from the N. pay customs. There is a small
force here under a sartip, from whom an escort can be obtained
for journeys within the limits of the Kerman district. There is
extraordinary little vegetation anywhere about this countrv
the very scantiest camel-grazing, except in the immediate
vicinity of villages where camel-thorn grows freely. Yusufa-
bad, a village with a large kdrez, 5 miles N. of Ravar, can
be made a halting place on this stage.
Water. —Obtainable.
Fuel. —Obtainable.
Fodder. —Camel-grazing obtainable.
Supplies. —Obtainable.
11 HAUZ-I-PANJ 16 m. General direction
(4,420 ). SSE. Road at first
. . U . , ^ , lies over the Ravar
plain, passing a lot of ruined qdndts. At 2| miles Khairabad
a small village and garden, forming southern limit of cultivation
is passed. Chief water-supply of Ravar comes from hills to the
W. of this village Beyond Khairabad road crosses a wide
plain in direction of a flat-topped hill which seems to bar end
of valley, forms most conspicuous landmark. At 6 miles track
enters a torrent bed up which and beside which it runs till Hauz-
-i^Panj is reached At 7 miles road to Kuhistan branches
off. It is a large district coterminous with Khabis. At 9
miles Hauz-i-Seh with good water. From about here to
Hauz-i-Panj road, although level, is extremely rough and
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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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