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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎104r] (212/652)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (322 folios). It was created in 1910. 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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GABDG-SGTI—
A village in the sonth-west of Persian Baluchistan, about 15 miles east
of Jashk, on the road to Surag.— {Johnston.)
GABRlG—
A village in the Jashk district {q.v.).
GABRIG (River)—
A river in Bashakard. Its true course is not known, but Galindo is of
opinion that the river which is shown under this name on St. John’s map
as emptying itself into the Arabian Sea to the south of Guh Kuh, and a
stream which he himself struck in the neighbourhood of Gwatar are
one and the same.
That portion of it which was explored by Galindo meets the Minab-
Bint road some 21 miles east-south-east of Parman, and here its bed is
very rocky and broken—a typical example indeed of all the Bashakard
streams. Galindo gives the following description of it :—
‘ ‘ The country consisted of great waves of up-tilted strata—sandstone
in huge slabs, turned up at an angle of 50 or 60 degrees. The stream had
forced its- way through these ridges in a series of sharp zigzags. Where
the channel cut a ridge at right angles there was always a barrier of huge
reefs of rock. Then it would turn abruptly to right or left and flow
between two ridges, in a bed consisting of a smooth slippery trough of
stone, till it broke through the next ridge, and so on. At almost every
curve the bank on the concave side was a perpendicular scarp with a
deep pool of water at its foot and the convex side a sort of moraine of
huge boulders. The ridges of strata rose on either hand in confused
masses of precipitous broken rock from 100 feet to 200 feet in height.”
See also Jashk district.— {Galindo, November 1888.)
GACHlN—
A village in the Shamil district {q.v).
GADPICH—
A small date-grove in Makran, about 10 miles north-west of Fanuch*
— {Sykes, 1898.)
GAD PUSHT NALA—
The name of the upper portion of the Gazu nald, a tributary of the
Talab river. It rises near Af-i-Afghan (mile 14, on the route from Gusht
to Vasht) and flows in a south-westerly and southerly direction past Buzin
(mile 29 on above route), at which place good sweet water exists. Grass,
wood, grazing along the banks.— {Jennings, 1885.)
GAIGAN—
A village in the Jashk district {q.v.).

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The item is Volume IV of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).

The volume comprises that portion of Persia south and east of the Bandar Abbas-Kirman-Birjand to Gazik line, with the exception of Sistan, 'which is dealt with in the Military Report on Persian Sistan'. It also includes the islands of Qishm, Hormuz, Hanjam, Larak etc. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and the whole district of Shamil.

The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, climate, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.

Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.

The volume contains an index map, dated July 1909, on folio 323.

The volume also contains a glossary (folios 313-321).

Prepared by the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India.

Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.

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1 volume (322 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 324; 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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