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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [218v] (441/536)
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. VII {c)—contd.
affc f st eep descent by very rough bridle-path, cross small stream,,
and, at 18th mile, passing over low spur, reach Savaldl.
1,3 KHAIRABAD .. IS] m. General direction N.
—— ■ (about 6,800'). Follow stream down
• + 2 • , , , fr om Savaldi keep-
^ t° right side of narrow glen enclosed by low easy heights
At 5* miles reach Yang! Kila, mud fort and village on open plain.
N °; + T II & ) ^ onnects here - Yangi Kila is the head
quarters of the Kushkaneh, or NW. district of Kuchan, which
comprises all the villages, some 33 in number, stretching along
the Russmn frontier from Sarani on the E. to Ganfur on the W
and thence S. down to the Bujnurd border. The village con
tains about 40 families of Kurds from Flruzeh, to make room
tor whom the former residents were turned out and sent else-
^ad it not been for this > the Flruzeh people would
have left Kuchan territory altogether, and as it was they were
only returned with difficulty. The country here consists of
open, undulating and cultivated uplands without a single tree
except the few in the gardens round the villages. At 84 miles
reach village of Kullak (marching by lower road) and then N. up
over open undulating country to village of Zaidar at 14 miles
ibi ascent of 900 feet leads to the edge of a plateau. There
m V . and m 2 miles reach Khairabad, a village of 20 families
Sd heTT 1 ( M an) xT hiC T h iS unoccu P ied - ^^ian Khaira-
trees “ 6 N ' 11 is used as a hm station. No
Water .—Scanty supply.
f FIRUZEH
(2,294').
704
17 m.. General direction NW.
Road runs N. over
shed to Russian Khairabad at 1 mile. TheneTby military roacUo
iruzeh, occupied by the Russians in 1893 ; 2C0 ^houses •
stream of good water; 1 4 miles further down the valley is a
.mall Russian settlement. Supplies for 5,000 men for a month
for IrtllW J hMe - ano tier roadfimpracticabte
nm 111 an , d the Sarani Pass which makes this.
26 Siles ^ Th ! r ° ad COntinues to Askhabad,
ffindvSr 18 ° rtar u traCkS t0 Askhab ad ; one mu
rimavar, 18 miles, the other via the Tagun, 21.
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:264v, back-i
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