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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [307r] (618/652)
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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However, the telegraph route map places Tank also to the west of the
headland, and at the south-east end of the Yank Kuh.— See Tank.
VARAJ— Elev. 6,552'.
A small hamlet in Sarhad, 28|- miles north of Vasht, towards Kuh-i-
Chehil Tan. Water and forage available.— (Sykes, 1893.)
VARI—
A halting-stage in Persian Baluchistan, 10 miles north-west of Siroki,
on the Dasht river, and 20 south-east of Bahli Kalat. Wood and camel
forage is plentiful, and there is a little water procurable from the bed
of the Saman river.— (Janes, 1900.)
VARUF (Nala)—
A ndld in Bashakard, into which the Jashk-Anguran road descends
after crossing the Mangureh Kutal, and which it traverses for | mile.—
(Medley and Massy, 1893.)
VARZIN—
A halting-place in Kirman, 4 stages north-west of Bampur, on the road
to Narmashir.— (Hdjl 'Abdul Nabi.)
VASHKUSH—
A village in Makran on the Sarhai (q.v.).
VASHMAQAN—
A date-grove hamlet in Persian Baluchistan li miles south of Pip, on the
Chahbar-Bampur road.— (Sykes, 1893.)
VASHT or KVASH—Approximate Lat. 28° 9' 40"; Approx. Long. 61° 2' 28"
Elev. 3,538'—4,482'.
The principal village in Sarhad (q.v.), in the southern part of that district,
of which it is said to be the one permanently inhabited spot ; the people
are said to be a wild nomadic race, averse to building regular habita
tions.
General Gasteiger Khan, an Austrian officer in the Persian service, passed
through Vasht (which he calls Chash) on his way from Bampur to Jalk in
February 1881. The fort was then in ruins, having been destroyed by the
Persians seven years previously. It was surrounded by neglected orchards
and a few ruined dwellings.
The portion of the Sarhad plateau in the neighbourhood of Vasht is
naturally very fertile “and the remains of irrigation canals may be noticed,
but the whole place is at present in ruins and presents a most dismal
appearance. On the dried-up plains a few miserable huts are to be seen and
here and there cattle graze on the scanty herbage.
“ This is a good country for sport, and abounds with gazelle (? ibex)
sheep (? uridl), wild asses, panthers (?leopards), wolves and hyenas.”
The elevation of the Sarhad plateau about Vasht is between 3,000 and
4,000 feet. To the south-east it appears to slope steadily towards the
Magas and Sib valleys, but on the east and west towards the Dlzak valley
(Gusht) and the Bampur plain there must be a considerable and perhaps
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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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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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