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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [89r] (182/536)
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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some 1,000 feet into the Karabll valley. For the first 4 or 5
miles road traverses the northern side of a plain, that slopes
away down to the SE., and, finally, drains into Shaughan, the
only thing visible to break the monotony of its arid surface
being the small tappeh or mound of Robat-i-’Ashk away in the
distance to the S. The road here runs W. immediately under
the Kurkhud range. To the N. of the Kurkhud hill lay the
Kastan spring, forming the source of the Fucha stream. About
half way from Chaman-i-Bid a slight descent is come to, and
beyond that the plain slopes westwards, finally draining into
the Dehaneh-i-Gurgah near Dasht. This plain is known in
its upper part as the Karabil valley. Robat-i-Karabil consists
of a small village of 5 or 6 houses built near the ruins of an old
stone robdt. No water in this stage between Chaman-i-Bid and
Robat-i-Karabil.
Water .—Scanty supply but it could probably be improved.
Supplies. —Scarce.
11 DASHT .. 17 m. Eight miles W. of
(3,000'). Robat-i-Karabil and
146 9 miles E. of Dasht
is the little village of Armutli containing 5 houses, and situated
at the foot of the Sarai range which bounds the valley on the
S. The Karabil valley gradually narrows, as it goes W. and at
Armutli is barely a mile in width, and half way to Dasht,
becomes quite narrow. The road there leaves it and descends
through the hills to the S. into the Dasht plain. The village
of Dasht contains about 60 families of Gandar Turks. These
families provide a guard of 25 savdrs who are all armed
with Werndl rifles. These 25 savdrs are supposed to keep a
watch on the road from Sugha, the valley lying to the W. of
Fucha, and other places by which the Yamuts cross the Qara-
tigan hills to the N. These hills to the N. and NW. of Dasht
are wooded on their upper slopes with mdzu trees. Below them
are sprinkled small junipers, but these end here, and arq not to
be seen further W.
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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.'.
- Extent and format
- 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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