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'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [224r] (452/610)
The record is made up of 1 volume (301 folios). It was created in 1922. 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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these quarters impossible. The harbour can be used by ships
up to 15 feet.
The depth of water at the entrance is 23 to 20 feet decreasing
to 15 feet, in the centre and further in to the Eastern side it
is 20 to 18 feet decreasing to 12 feet at the Fish
Factory
An East India Company trading post.
.
These depths are maintained by constant dredging to remove
the sand which silts up very quickly. The Enzali spit is ter
minated on the inside towards the 1 Murdab by a creek between
the South of the spit and an island. At the entrance to this
creek there are “scour” holes of 30 feet, and 17 feet can be
obtained for about mile up it.
On both sides of it wharves have been built for small craft,
and piers where oil steamers pump out. There are a number
of oil and petrol tanks, also wood and store houses.
Native craft use this creek and Enzali. On the side of the
Russian settlement of Qazian are 4 wharves, giving 6 berths,
with 15 feet of water alongside. The wharves are narrow and
above ground level and are connected by ramps and causeways
up to the roads behind them.
There are no cranes.
Water is obtained from tanks brought alongside.
The Port Administration have small 2 workshops and port Adminis
dynamos, but there are no docks or repair facilities and the tr ation.
port is dependent on Baku. The Administration have a
water supply.
For the Port Trust see Chapter VII, paragraph (C) Foreign
interests page 272.
The Murdab is some thirty kilometres at its greatest length Murdab.
from East Southeast to West Northwest and 10 kilometres in
width from Enzali to Pir-i-Bazar river. Its average depth is
from 30 to 90 centimetres and its maximum depth from 1J
to If metres so it can be used by small native craft. Flat
bottomed sailing boats and some launches ply between Enzali
and Pir-i-Bazar at the South East corner of the Murdab,
which is connected by a metalled road and narrow gauge
railway with Rasht. Prior to the construction of the Enzali-
Rasht road by the Russian Road Company this was the
regular route from Enzali to Rasht, and it is still considerably
used especially for merchandise as the cost of transport is less
than by the Russian road.
There is no harbour between Enzali and Bandar-i-Gaz, in Ofeer^ading
the Murdab of Astarabad, but there are several trading stations
1 For a description of Mur dabs see Chapter II, ^ Geography page 99.
s In 1919 these were in poor condition.
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Military report compiled by Captain LS Fortescue of the General Staff of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force and printed in Calcutta at the Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1922.
The volume begins with a statement defining the geographical area covered by the report. The report is divided into ten chapters, plus appendices, each concerning a different subject, as follows:
- Chapter 1: History
- Chapter 2: Geography
- Chapter 3: Climate, Water, Medical and Aviation
- Chapter 4: Ethnography
- Chapter 5: Administration (including a table of provinces with administrative details (folios 123-30)
- Chapter 6: Armed Forces of the Persian Government
- Chapter 7: Economic Resources
- Chapter 8: Tribes
- Chapter 9: Personalities
- Chapter 10: Communications
- Appendices: Glossary of terms; Weights, measures and coinage; Bibliography; Historical sketch (Chapter 1) continued from June 1920 to the end of 1921
At the back of the volume (folio 302) is a map to illustrate the report.
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- 1 volume (301 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a contents page (folio 5) and list of illustrations (folio 6) at the front of the volume and an index at the back (folios 270-300). All refer to the volume's original pagination. The index also includes map references of all places marked on the map.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 303; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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