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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [71r] (146/536)
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. V— contd.
road still hard, good and fairly level. Here there is a range
of low hills on the right. At 8 miles, ascends a gravel ridge
gently by a very good road approaching the mountains on the
left, which are now about | mile distant. There are some
low hills close on right. At 11^ miles the road is of a rather
steeper ascent for 50 yards, with low black hills sweeping down
on both sides, and reducing it to a narrow track, where there
is only room for one horse to pass. Beyond this road is level
and good descending very slightly. Here the valley gradually
opens into a plain bounded on the left by high rugged bare
mountains of red sandstone and on the right by low black
rounded hills. At 14J miles reach altitude of 5,800 feet.
Road is now in a plain or plateau with tufts of vegetation ;
about 2 miles wide, sloping down from here very gently.
Beyond this some old wells are seen, and at 18 miles the village
and fort of Khurunak is reached. In this village there are 100
houses and a good, new,
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
. There is also a fort.
This plain is 5,450 feet above the sea. There is no village nearer
to Khurunak than Saghand (stage 4) to the K, or Ar 7 akan
about 45 miles to the W. on a bearing of 255°. According
to Sykes there is no difficulty for carriages or guns on this
stage.
TFafer.—Good.
Supplies .—A few.
3 RIZAB .. 24J m. General direction NE
(3,750'). Down narrow gully
60J between black, slaty
rocks. Road steep in parts but not bad, and wheeled artillery
could be taken over it. There is an immense amount of
salt efflorescence, and at a distance of about a mile from
Khurunak the stream is salt, and disappears soon afterwards.
There is a little scrubby tamarisk in the valley. At 4§ miles
the gully opens somewhat; road is down the dry bed of a
torrent enclosed on both sides by hills ; it is still very good. At
7J miles the bed of the water-course is left, and the track enters
a vast and open plain, sparsely covered with tufts of vegeta
tion. Road still descends easily and gently, and hard and
good, though here and there stony ; it is on the glacis-like
slope that comes from a low range of hills on the left. This
slope is continued beyond the road to the right and to the
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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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