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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. (VOLUME I.) (KHORASAN AND SISTAN.)' [224v] (453/536)
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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440
Route No. VII { h )~ contd .
sound bed, and, passing ruins of large village Khartul, cross.
V ij Uey ‘ ^ alley NW * °P en grass land, thinly wooded with
alder and dwarf maple with occasional dense thickets of under
growth. Cross low, marly spur of high ridge to right of route,
and at 12th mile reach Uzun Darreh, a dry sub-tributary!
Follow up dry bed, and at 14th mile enter close defile. Continue
threading defile commanded by cliffs and peaks of slate 3 (
shales, and marls, ascending easily. At ISJ miles ascend
ridge, reaching crest at 20th mile. Ascent 1,100 feet. This
is the Uzan Darreh Pass. Road, bad bridle path, narrow and Jarful over
steep, but improvable. Tracks turn off right up ridge towards ® high mour
Gifan and left to Qarai and the Chat-i-Chandir. Descend over 'Wg and wo
easy slopes 900 feet to ruins of Gilau at 28th mile. Camp above
Gilau on meadows shut in by high cliffs. This long sta<m of 28 4 (
miles must be divided into two marches. Water and grazing
to be found in the Khartul valley at 8 miles, which might be , ^
made a halting-place. For alternative stages avoiding the -Whywide
Uzun Darreb Pass see below. iood ford, and
5 and 6 KARA KARA .. 29 m. General direction NW. f “ ar l v spn
77,77* ~ ' From Gilau follows ^raKalatoC
- _ course of small f small salt st
stream descend easily to open glen, with slopes well clothed with i® 8 ’ ari( i W
grass and juniper thickets. At 3rd mile pass site of Punjau. l5t hmile. As
At 4th mile debouch on valley of Chandir, a marshy stream, ^ slopes marl
girth deep. Valley narrow and full of cane brakes and mars! Ph with ext*
trom ford descend Chandir valley for half mile and strike into " om ridge, 2,i
low hills at foot of ridge enclosing valley to N. At 6^ miles ^Pes easy and
commence ascent of main ridge up deep rocky ravine well- Honopeni
wooded, and filled with dense undergrowth. Bridle path ®dwood.
narrow and devious, slopes easy on either side. At 81 miles
emerge on open spur rising easily towards crest of ridgefand at 5and6 K
lUf miles reach crest, level and open. Grassy downs stretch ~—
away right and left in easy undulations, and fall in front rapidly 113
towards valley of the Sunt. Total ascent 2,500 feet. Bend
W. along crest of ridge to 14J miles, thence descend by good
bridle path to Kara Kala. Another long stage which must be
broken up. _ Possibly a _ camping ground could be found at
about 11 miles. Kara Kala is a Russian village with a fort.
it stands on a stream with a good deal of cultivation. Road to
Kizil Arvat (a station on the Trans-Caspian Railway), 35 miles,.
via Khwaja Kala practicable for field artillery.
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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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