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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [170r] (344/706)
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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KHUN—KHUR
327
Transport, chiefly donkeys, can be procured in some numbers.
Tables of rates of 'provisions, September, 1889.
Rs.
A.
p.
Rs.
A.
p.
Rice
0
14
0
1 man.
Spirit ..
5
13
0
2 mans.
Barley
0
6
6
8 mans
Wool ..
3
3
3
2 „ .
Ghi
1
9
9
1 man
Country cloth ..
0
6
6
ll yards
Sugar
2
0
0
1 „
Longcloth
0
4
6
1 yard.
Flour
0
6
6
21 mans
Salt ..
0
1
4
1 man.
Bread
0
6
6
3 „
Chintz
0
4
6
1 yard.
Firewood
0
0
9
1 man
Charcoal
0
6
6
1 man.
Milk
0
6
6
1
Iron
2
0
0
2 mans.
Bhusa
0
0
8
1 „
Copper
8
13
0
2 H
Eggs
0
6
6
Fifty
Tea ..
16
0
0
1 man.
Fowl
0
6
6
Two.
Tobacco
2
6
6
2 mans.
Meat
1
0
0
2 mans.
Black pepper
8
13
0
2 „
■ — (Kinneir — Sheil — Stack — Bell — Yiisuf — Sharif — Preece.)
KHUNSAR—
A pass over the Kuh Radian, traversed a short distance south of the
town of Khunsar by the road Duak. On the southern side there is a vil
lage ; on the western side, at the foot of the pass and half-way up, a small
fort tenantless since the drought of 1879. On the top is a spring of good
water. The descent of Khunsar occupies three hours, and the road winds
so much among ravines and round hillsides that Khunsar does not come
into view till one is within a short distance of it.— (Stack.)
KHUR DISTRICT—
Is a portion of the Samnan division. It is bounded north by the kavir,
to the west by the Shurab district, and to the south by the Kotal-i-Jamal
Khani, which separates it from the Yazd district. To the east it extends
to the kavir, where it joins that of Tabas. It is practically surrounded
on all sides by deserts.
The climate is exceedingly mild in winter as contrasted with that of
other parts of Persia. On an average it does not freeze on more than 10
or 12 nights in the year. This is no doubt owing to the low elevation at
which it is situated and to the high ranges to the south and south-west
which protect it from the cold wind. In winter the air of these parts
is moist for Persia, owing no doubt to dampness of the surrounding
deserts into which the drainage flows from an immense area. During the
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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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