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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [138r] (280/536)
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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267
Route No. II(q)— contd .
culty. Reach plateau.and, about 2 hours afterwards, crest of
pass. Elevation 2,400 feet (aneroid). The only difficulty is the
short ascent just mentioned, but this could be a\oided by
following some of the ridges or nalas to the E. of present pass,
by which the Shurab plain could be reached, through which
passes road to Burj-hKhuda Bakhsh from Pul-i-Khatun From
the Shurab valley to the top there is no difficulty. Descent
on southern side easy ; direct road goes to Chashmeh-i-Timuri,
but the Kaleh-i-Karau is a better camping-ground. At 15
miles, a track from Meshed to Pul-i-Khatun joins m. Turn off
to W. and arrive in camp 25 minutes later. Kila-i-Karau is
a small village of about twenty-five houses. Milk and lucerne
procurable ; very little at Chashmeh Timuri. This pass over
the Pishkamar range is generally known by the name Burj-i-
Khuda Bakhsh. It presents no difficulty worth mentioning to
construction of a road or railway. There is a direct toad to it
from Pul-i-Khatun, known as the Shurab route, because it
passes through the Shurab plain above-mentioned. Sykes
makes Pul-i-Khatun to Zurabad 32 miles, or 2 miles less than
these stages. He remarks that field guns could be got over
the pass, but with difficulty.
9 ZURAbAD .. 14 m. General direction SE. 2
2 (2,250'). Follow course of the
’ Kila-i-Karau, bed
of which contains tamarisk jungle and reeds through which a
sluggish brook flows. Pass at IJ hours a nala on right, a few
hundred yards up which is Chashmeh-i-Timuri. Water supp y
suffices for 2,000 or 3,000 sheep, and is enough to irrigate a yoke
of land Continue to follow windings of Kila-i-Karau, which
widens out between low clay hills, for three hours Road
good whole way. Two farsakhs on, nala joins Han Rud. This
affords a good marching route towards Zurabad from frontier.
Leaving the Kila-i-Karau arrive at Zurabad. At 1£ miles
from Zurabad cross the Khushalgarh brook, the newly settled
village, of same name, being about 2 miles on right (W.).
About the Karau nala are a number of Nurzai shepherds from
Herat In all there are about 400 famihes scattered between
Zurab’ad, Bakharz and Khaf. People of Zurabad are called
Urcmnils. Zurabad was once a large place, but is now in a state
of decay. It lies in a fertile valley in which there are numerous
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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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