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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎257r] (518/652)

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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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flowing through a much wider, deep and rough bed. Its waters, notwith
standing its designation, are perfectly fresh and its sand resembles sparkl
ing particles of gold. > . .
Smith describes it at the point he crossed it as being divided into twenty
or thirty channels straggling over a total breadth of about 3 miles. He had
to ride 10 miles down its banks before he could find a ford. {Abbott ;
Smith.)
RUDKHANEH PUL—
The bed of a stream between Abarik and Bam, inKirman also called the
Tehrud. It is a broad bed occasioned by the heavy torrents which sweep
down from the mountains on the south. {Abbott.)
BUD KHIZ—
A deep valley in Kirman which is well wcode 1 and through which a
stream runs, 22 miles south-south-east of Khabis on the road to Bam.
{Abbott.)
BUD SHIB—
A patch of cultivation near Varaj in Sarhad. {Brazier-Creagh, 1893.)
BUDUSTA (Kirman)—
A village of Bazman {q.v.). — {Jennings.)
BUDUSTA TASHT—
A village near Bazman {q.v.) in Persian Baluchistan.
BUFAK (Nala) (Kirman)—
A tributary to the Kunarnai rive,!.—{Jennings.)
BUHGAM— Elev. 250'.
A plain and village in Makran, 9 miles south-east of Bahu Kalat,
on the Bahu river. The plain consists mostly of sand-dunes, with the
Kuh Ghurroke standing about the centre. In the village live some five
families. A few supplies are procurable, but the water is brackish and
limited ; a good quantity, however, is said to exist 2 miles north-east of
the Kuh Ghurroke— {Janes, 1900.)
BUHTAK—
A tributary of the Mashkil {q. v.).
BUMPK—
A village of 100 houses west of Fanuch (g'.'U.)in Makran on river Somilan.
BUNDU KUH or SABDU KUH—
A range, which is part of the hills bounding the plain or valley of
Pishin, in Persian Baluchistan, on the north. A road from Bask {q.v.)
towards Pishin runs under the Bundu Kuh.—{Lovett.)
BUNG—
A village in Geh {q.v.) in Makran. :
61 I. B. 3 s

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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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