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'Notes of a journey from Kasreen to Hamadan across the Karaghan country. By J. D. Rees' [20v] (45/54)
The record is made up of 1 volume (23 folios). It was created in Oct 1885. 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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32 NOTES OF A JOUENEY FROM KASVEEN TO HAMADAN.
impartially. In the Turko-Russian war he was commissioned to
worry the Russian villages in Georgia, which he did, and then
returned to his mountain fastness with the arms he had been
supplied with—very good ones too. His men, said to be 200 in
number, are exceedingly well mounted, and each is popularly said
to be worth about 100 Persians, as most Kurds are. They are
reckless riders, and the 12 miles between Kasr-i-Sheereen and the
Turkish frontier were done in quicker time than any march I
made in Persia, which here I leave behind me.
OoTACAMUND, J. D. R.
October 1885.
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The volume consists of the printed notes taken by John David Rees, Under-Secretary to the Government of Madras From 1684-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Madras [Chennai] and southern India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. , during his journey between Kasveen [Qazvin] and Hamadan, Persia [Iran]. The notes were printed by the Government Press at Madras [Chennai], in October 1885.
The volume contains a map on folio 4 showing the route of Rees’s journey. At the end of the volume is an itinerary of the journey with details of distances and directions.
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- 1 volume (23 folios)
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 25; 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. An additional printed pagination sequence is also present in parallel between ff 5-23.
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- Mss Eur F112/375
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- 'Notes of a journey from Kasreen to Hamadan across the Karaghan country. By J. D. Rees'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:3v, 5r:25r
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence