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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [213v] (431/536)
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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.Route No. VI (j)— contd.
2 JAJARM
(About
27£ 3,000').
.. 12J m. For 3| miles skirt edge
of a hill which is in
tersected with many
ravines. Jajarm has now a population of about 2,000. The
houses are all domed, as no wood is procurable for rafters.
There is one
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
. The surrounding plain is parched
and arid. 150 camels, 100 mules and ponies and 200 donkeys
are estimated as being available for hire in the district.
Water .—
Supplies,
Procurable.
45J
CAMPNEAR
HAUZ.
18| m. Direction ENE. over
a partially culti
vated plain for 5 or
6 miles. Thence over desert plain to hauz, a small cistern filled
by surface drainage, the only water on the line between Jajarm
and the cultivated lands of the Sanghas villages. To the NW.
lies a large mound of bright red colour at the foot of the Kuh-i-
Chiqab, where there is a small spring of good water. The hauz
is often dry in summer.
4 KARASHAH .. 10 m. General direction NE.
At miles village
^4 of Ja’afarabad.
For alternative stages from here via Sanghas see below. Kara-
shah, 60 houses.
Supplies .—Plentif u 1.
5 TA\ AR 13 m. Leave village on bear-
in ? NNE - At 3 4
. miles reach bed of
stream, dry in summer and autumn, and entrance of Darband
defile. Bend X. up the pass, following stonv bed of stream or
level, alluvial strips, and at 5 miles pass village Kafar, £ mile
left. Road commanded by spurs of mountains to left and ricrht.
Above Kafar glen narrows, but road continues level and gwd.
At 71 miles reach hamlet Darband at which point hillskirts
close in to water-course. Thence ascend easily over broken
ground to opening of gorge on to plain of Shaughan at 9 miles.
At 13 miles reach village ofTavar, on edge of plain, NE. of pass
Ascent from Karashah, 400 feet.
Supplies. —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)
- 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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