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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [137v] (279/536)
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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266
Route No. ll(q)—contd.
o,000 feet), stage 3, are always open except occasionally during
the actual progress of a snow-storm. Water plentiful, but
supplies generally scarce. The whole route presents no diffi
culties of a serious nature to the construction of a cart
road, or railway. Condie-Stephens considers that the best
roa rom Pul-i-Khatun to Turbat, etc., is via Pishkamar and
Lankar (Langar ?). The Governor-General of Khorasan
travelled by this route from Sarakhs to Turbat in a caliche in
the summer of 1882.
No. of stage
distance.
Details.
i
KILA-I-
20 m. General direction S.
A ARA U.
First 5 miles up
, valley of Kashaf
Kud to Pishkamar, 200 houses. The Meshed road continues
Jv.; fro ™ here -. Water in Kashaf Rud brackish, but drinkable.
Aila-i-Karau is also called Kila Muhammad HajI Timurla.
There are a few black tents, and some mud houses. Water
plentiful and fuel procurable in the vicinity and from hills.
General^ direction south. First follow Kashaf Rud. and turn
up ^ari defile. Path quite an easy gradient, flanked on
both sides by high hills covered with pistachio trees. A water
course, Gari) dry at times, filled with tamarisk bushes, runs
down through the defile. At 9£ miles reach Karl spring;
water bitter Elevation 1,400 feet, [Here a path branches
tt to JJarakht-i- Unnab in a westerly direction, 2 (?) farsakhs
distant, with many ups and downs, but fit for lightly laden
came s.J Jnnab has one spring of sweet water sufficient for
two flocks of sheep (a flock numbering 1,000 or 1,500). Thence
path goes to Kila-i-Farshami (1 farsakh) and thence by easy
road to Kila-i-Mahkabad, 2 farsakhs. Here is a valley and
f P A r , m S ^ from Natu on the Meshed-Zurabad route. Kila-
M ri ^ aS a ^ ou ^ Slstani families; five ploughs. Near
Mahkabad, at a distance of 1 farsakh. is Bagh-i-Kashmiri.
,ui S ^ nn I th , ere is a stee P ish ascent up a soft ridge to a
rolling table-land, through which road continues almost level,
“17 for wheels to top of pass. This ascent is the only bit
unfit for wheels, but a good road could be made without diffi-
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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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