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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [76v] (157/706)
The record is made up of 1 volume (349 folios). It was created in 1914. 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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140
DAB,—DAR
The cracks are filled in with a fine white layer of hard salt. The slabs are
to a very great degree transparent, and the surface is dotted with patches
of soft white salt resembling freshly fallen snow. It affords a firm and un-
slippery foothold. The salt contains a considerable amount of moisture,
a bag in which some was placed being speedily saturated. The salt con
tinues along the south borders of the lake for many miles. The ground
adjoining the salt is havlr or swampy soil with a salty efflorescence. The salt
commences on this in a cake { inch thick saturated with water and breaks on
being trodden on, but this rapidly gives place to a sheet firm as a rock.
If a hole is cut in the salt, water oozes up and fills the hole precisely
the same as with ice. I think it probable that these vast deposits of salt
absorbing all the moisture in the air may account for the extreme dryness
of the atmosphere in these parts.— (Vaughan, 1890.)
A salt lake, or marsh, which extends between Qum and Tehran, east
and west, for about 150 miles, and has a breadth of 35 miles in some places.
The roads through this morass are not easily distinguished, and the unfor
tunate wanderer runs the risk of either perishing in the swamps or dying of
thirst and heat.— (Kennier.)
DARlAN—
• A village at the northern end of the Shahu range in the buluk of Avroman
Lahun of Kurdistan.— (Schindler.)
DAR-I-BARU—
A range of hills in the Qasr-i-ShlrTn district, known also as Qamakavu
(q.v.). — (Soane, 1911.)
D AR-I-DIV AN—(1).
A range of hills in the Qasr-i-Shirln district (q. v.). — (Soane, 1911.)
DAR-I-DlYAN—(2).
A" long hill lying west and south-west of the Bannu mountain, and separat
ing north Bajlan from Sar Kaleh. Height about 700 feet above the level
of the plain. Wrongly called Daridelivan on the Indian Survey map.—
(Soane, 1912.)
DAR-ISHK—
A village in Yazd between Deh-i-Shir and’Aliabad, on the western road from
Shiraz to Yazd.— (MacGregor.)
DARISTAN—
A small village, 24 miles south-east of Kum (Qum).— (Persian Gazetteer,
1871.)
DARJAZlN. See Darreh-i-Gazin.
DARJAZIN—or DARREH-I-GAZIN (9.)
A buluk of Hamadan. About 50 villages, bordered eas" by Nubaran,
north by Sardarud, west by the Kanldagh mountains and south by Charm
and Darjazln districts of ’Iraq. The population is composed of Turks.
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The item is Volume II of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1914 edition).
The volume comprises the north-western portion of Persia, bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north by the Russo-Persian frontier and Caspian Sea; on the east by a line joining Barfarush, Damghan, and Yazd; and on the south by a line joining Yazd, Isfahan, and Khanikin.
The gazetteer includes entries on human settlements (towns, villages, provinces, and districts); communications (roads, bridges, halting places, caravan camping places, springs, and cisterns); tribes and religious sects; and physical features (rivers, streams, valleys, mountains and passes). Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, resources, trade, and agriculture.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
A Note (folio 4) makes reference to a map at the end of the volume; this is not present, but an identical map may be found in IOR/L/MIL/17/15/4/1 (folio 636) and IOR/L/MIL/17/15/4/2 (folio 491).
Printed at the Government of India Monotype Press, Simla, 1914.
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- 1 volume (349 folios)
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The volume contains a list of authorities (folio 6) and a glossary (folios 343-349).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at inside back cover with 351; 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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- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:350v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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