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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [116v] (237/536)
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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224
Route No. 2— contd.
2 FATKIKABAD 16 m. General direction SW.
(5,800'). Cultivation extends
31 f mile up the valley
to entrance of gorge, passing a mill at half mile. At 1| miles
a second mill with young trees. The gorge is very narrow
and sterile up to this point, but at 4 miles patches of cultivation
begin and occur at intervals during the march. At 5 miles
valley divides, track following W. branch. At 9 miles road
winds up to pass, 6,600 feet. At 11 miles stream commences,
coming from N. side of valley. At 14 miles route leaves the
track 'and turns S., reaching Fatkikabad at 16 miles. Two
miles NNE. is Badam. Deh Haji at 2 miles NE. Khushkabad
* at 4 miles NE. Khustar at 6 miles NE. Fatkikabad is a
good-sized village with mulberry, orchards and cultivation.
The mulberry trees do not, however, flourish as well as at
Kalat.
Water. —Plentiful.
3 TUN .. 16 m. General direction SW.
(4,300'). Road gradually des-
47 cends the whole way
to Tun. At first it leads over a barren plain ; at 1| miles a
stream of brackish water from the E. runs along the road,
watering fields and gardens which are called Guchabad. At
4i miles, a mill half mile to E. of road, brackish stream being
diverted to work it. About the same distance to the W. of
road a hamlet or series of hamlets called Kalateh Haji Mirza
Muhammad. At 5 miles hauz (empty). At 6 to 9 miles Baghis*
tan-i-Ballada, consisting of enormous orchards stretching for
3 miles along road and averaging half mile in width. It is
watered by a stream coming from W., which passes through
a mill at top of the gardens. Height 4,900 feet. From this
point Buru, about 8 miles, and Naustanach, about 10 miles
distant, are visible to the W. Then cultivation continued
to Tun. At 11| miles mill to E. of road. At 12 miles re-cross
stream at a garden called Bagh-i-Arsai Java. At 12 J miles
Baghistan-i-Tun. At 14 miles hauz with water. Tun is a
walled town, mostly in ruins ; population 4,000 to 5,000. A
good deal of trade is carried on.
Water .—Good and plentiful.
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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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