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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [132v] (269/536)
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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256
ROUTE No. II (m).
KARlZ to PUL-I-KHATUN by the valley of the
HARI RUD and KALEH ISTUl.
136\ Miles. ' stages.
Authority. —Oranolisky, 1894.
Epitome. —Suitable for mule transport only.
The construction of a cart road would be a work of great
difficulty, and the route is generally only suitable for the move
ment of a small detachment.
Water. —Water supply good, except for one stretch of 10
miles in stage 5 and another of 12 miles in stage 7.
Fuel. —Plentiful.
Crrazw< 7 .—Plentiful.
Supplies.—N il.
General observations on the valley of the Hari Bud. (Condie-
Stephens, about 1885.)
Prom Kafir Kila the river runs in a northerly direction
along an uninhabited but fertile valley, piercing the Jam and
Siah Babak ranges through a gorge known by the name of
Tang-i-Daria. This gorge is exceedingly narrow in parts,
and is impassable for all arms, except in the late summer, when
a few horsemen might, by crossing and re-crossing the shallows,
force their way through the thick brushwood and jungle. On
the right bank, from the Siah Babak range northward, the
ground is high and undulating as far as Daulatabad, where the
undulations of ground finally subside into the desert. On the
left bank, after the Jam mountains are crossed, the ground is
flatter than on the right, there being a tract of open fertile land
near the river, and another further on ; the stream winds west
ward round the foot of a high range till it reaches Pul-i-Khatun.
whence, after running eastward for a few miles, it again flows
northward in a widening valley to Sarakhs. Between Kuhsan
and Nauruzabad (18 miles S. of Sarakhs) the country on both
sides of the stream is uninhabited, except at two spots, Muhsi-
nabad and Zurabad. Portions of the valley abound in natural
pasturage, and the land near the banks between
Toman
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
Agha
and Tang-i-Daria, and between Pul-i-Khatun and Sarakhs
might easily be irrigated. Rainfall is said to be small. Usual
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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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