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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [115r] (234/536)
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. \—contd.
At 7f miles a fine mountain, the Kuh-i-Shah, bears 360°, and
the high mountains to the S. before-mentioned bear 170°.
Continue over a broad plain. The Kuh-i-Shah is by far the
Ipftiest and conspicuous mountain of the range. The soil here
is light and sandy. To the SW. the plain stretches away
indefinitely, except for a few low hills, but no range between
it and the desert. Road now ascends slightly at 15^ miles,
and at 17 miles on right a spur from the Kuh-i-Shah connects
with the hills to the left front. The road crosses this
spur, ascending a water-course. Soil is sandy. To left, at
23 miles, is Kalateh ’Abbasabad, containing one family only.
This part is known as the Nakhaj country. Road descending ;
right of the ground at 24J miles lies in ridges ; on left are low
hills. Reach village of Hamand, lying in a hollow on clay
soil.
Hamand contains 60 houses and has 500 sheep, 50 camels,
25 yoke of oxen and 1 watermill.
Water .—Sweet water can be had from a stream.
Fuel. —Plentiful.
Fodder .—Camel grazing good.
Available in large quantities.
6 RUD-I-SHUH .. 15£ m. General direction NW.
Leave Hamand
120| bearing 310°, and
follow down the stream that waters village. Stream goes off
to right at 1 mile and road keeps on in same direction, passing
between a few low mounds and leaving a rocky hill half a mile
off to left. At 3J miles to left is the Kuh-i-Dushakh, some
7 or 8 miles off ; to right is low hill and far beyond it is the
Kuh-i-Rich, a high mountain. At a bearing of 185° is a small
village at the foot of the hills called Barminj. Track at 7
miles leads over a broad level plain of gravelly soil with plenty
of camel grazing. Bearing 300° is a snowy range in the far
distance. Pass a hauz at 10£ miles. On left, about 13 miles
off, is the Kuh-i-Rami, showing up conspicuously as a round
top in the range. There is said to be a spring thereabouts.
Pass a few shepherds’ huts at 11J miles. Country, at 13£
miles is bare of the usual pasture, in its place grow tajaz and
ghich shrubs. More shepherds’ huts. The men are Nakhais.
Road gradually ascending ; come into some broken grounds with
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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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