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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [118v] (241/536)
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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228
Route No. 2—contd.
is about the same size, and through which access to the inner
building alone is obtainable. It contains accommodation for
250 men and 300 horses. It is strongly built, but has no flank
defence. The roof has an all-round walk and a parapet, 5 feet
high, badly loopholed. Chahar Deb consists of 4 villages
numbering altogether about 200 houses. Numerous clumps of
date trees and a large amount of wheat cultivation. Village is
a great depot for mules. An old fort, f mile SW. of the com-
vanserai.
Water .—From streams in the hills.
Fuel. —Plentiful.
Supplies .—Wheat and barley, a public bakery is estab
lished here.
11 SHURAB .. 18J m. General direction W.
Road leads by old
179f fort on right of track.
Thence towards an old ruin, which is passed at lj miles, with
a solitary short and bunchy tree behind it. Over a completely
bare plain of sand and gravel to 4 miles, when tagaz begins.
At 5b miles descend into a wide drainage channel and cross a
series of ravines draining into the kavir on the right. At 9J
miles a hauz on the right of the road, 10 feet by 25 feet and
able to hold 6 feet of water. At 11J miles another hauz on the
left and a large date tree beside it. Track here enters broken
ground. On the right a water-course. At 13| miles enter the
bed of this water-course ; here it is a shallow ravine between
rocky banks, 8 to 10 feet high. Westward up the bed of the
ravine for half mile and then climb on to its right bank. Ravine
now bends to the left and rejoins the road at 15 miles. Road
and channel pass through a gap in the hills, 60 to 70 feet high.
At 15f miles small ascent and reach a wide elevated plateau
of gravel and kamr. At 16| miles a track goes off to Haluan
through Shur Ab and Kuhneh, 1 mile distant, where formerly
there was water but it is now dried up. Shur Ab, below a
black rocky hill, is reached after crossing 2 wide channels.
It consists of an old round tower and a partly ruined caravan'
serai, massively constructed of brides and stone. One solitary
scrubby palm-tree.
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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)
- 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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