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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [101v] (207/536)
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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194
Boute No. IX — contd.
4 SHURRUKH .. 16 m. General direction
N by E. Reach crest
79 of Mazdaran Pass
(S^SO'). Ascent stony but not difficult ; gradients on both
sides easy. It is a good camel road, and with slight improve
ment practicable for field artillery. No great obstacles to the
construction of a good cart road. With the exception of this
pass and that crossed by Route No. VIII(l), the Kara Dagh
range is very precipitous and difficult. There are several
watch towers on the crest of the pass. From this point the
track runs NNE. for 2 miles, along a saddle, which connects
the Mazdaran range with the Kuh-i-Chashemeh-Zarchubeh range
to the N. The latter range is crossed at the Kotal-i-Du-
Biradar (or Gardaneh-i-Du-Biradar), which is seven hundred
feet higher than the Mazdaran pass, and is marked by two
Turkoman towers. Here the track descends in a north-north
easterly direction, bottom of the descent is reached in the
Tash Sang Nala, 2,750 feet, whence the road is quite easy to
Shurrukh. The Mazangan Nala comes in on the left. No
village at Shurrukh merely a halting place near some rough
reservoirs made by shepherds. There is an important track
from here running NW. to Chehcheh (Route No. VIII (m),
stage 2) via Mazangan, a village with abundant water, total
distance between 30 and 40 miles.
Note. —From the Mazdaran pass a good muletrack, fit for lightly laden camels
leads, KSE., to Shurijah, or Senpanja, on the right bank of the Kashaf End, 27
miles by the following route E. to a saddle at mile 2, elevations,6 00 feet,
thence descend the northern slopes of the Mazdaran range to Inja Bulak, at 7J
miles, a substantial village, deserted during the summer, elevation 2,900 feet;
good and abundant water from karez and pond ; at 10i miles pass through a pro
nounced cleft in a razor-backed ridge, which extends for about 10 miles along
the centre of the valley between the Mazdaran range to the S. and the Kuh-i-
Chashmeh-Zarchubeh to the N. Thence ENE. to a spring and nomad summer
encamp .nent, at mile 13J, whence turn down the silavah valley, E^E., passing
"Jb a spring and nomad summer encampment 17£ miles. At mile 20J,
Eadeh Ab spring and some 10 mud houses, occupied only in the summer. Leave
the Silava valley, which continues to the ^ T E., and crossing the under-fea-
tures of a low range, which runs between the track and the river at 24£ miles
pass the ruin of Kila-i-Shurijah an old fort on the left bank of the Kashaf
Kud; at this pomt the track passes beneath the Meshed-Sarakhs telegraph line,
winch here leaves the river ailtornsNNE from Kila-i-Shurij&h an easy
ford leads to the right bank, on which, at 27 miles, lies the new village of Shurijah,
or, as it is called by its inhabitant Sehpanja.
Water. W hen the reservoirs are full there is enough water
or 1,000 men and 300 horses. The flow of water from 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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