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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎88r] (180/820)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (396 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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sprinkled small junipers, but these end here and are not to be seen farther
west. Water good. Supplies scarce. Close by, in the hills, is a village
Daraz, which pays blackmail to the Turkomans. A shrine to Daniel also
exists in the range which is known as the Kuh-i-Quzluq.—(C. E. Yate ;
Sykes.)
DASHT (No. 5)— Lat. 38° 45' 0" ; Long. 56° 10' 0"—{Napier.)
A wide plateau in the north-west corner of Persia, north of the Ab-i-Sunt,
from which it is divided by low ridges, rising in a gradual slope up to
the main ridge of the Atak range, south of Kizil Arvat.— {Napier.)
DASHT (No. 6)—
A small village in the Khaf district of Khorasan, situated 4 miles south
of Khaf. It consists of 20 houses and 50 inhabitants, and possesses
15 cattle and 2 windmills. The annual production of wheat and barley
(f wheat, £ barley) in ordinary years is about 320 Indian maunds.
Water from a stream.— {C. Wanliss, August 1903.)
DASHT (No. 7)—
A small village in the Bakharz district of Khorasan, about 7 miles
north-west of Shahr-i-Nau. It is inhabited by 30 families of Bakhtiaris.
— {Sykes, 1905.)
DASHT-I-ARMUTLI— Lat. 37° 15' 0" to 37° 25' 0"; Long. 56° 10' 0"
to 56° 50' 0" ; Elev. 3,000'— {Napier.)
A water-shed in Kurdish Khorasan, some 3,000 feet high, which divides
the Kabh-i-Mura system from that of the Gurgan. It is low-lying and
barren, but capable of cultivation.
There is no such plain as the Dasht-i-Armutli. The Karabil valley
gradually narrows, as it goes west, and at Armutll is barely a mile in width,
and half-way to Dasht becomes quite narrow. The road there leaves it and
descends through the hills to the south into the Dasht plain.— {Napier ;
MacGregor; C. E. Yate.)
DASH T-I-GARM A B—
A gently sloping pasture tract in Khorasan,' close to Shurab, on the
Tehran-Meshed road.— {Bellew ; Goldsrnid.)
DASHT-I-KAVIR— Lat. 33° to 36°; Long. 52° to 58°.
The great Salt Desert that occupies the centre of Khorasan. It com-
i mences east of Kum, and stretches nearly due east to the boundary of
Turshiz, fully 400 miles. Its width varies from 80 to 150 miles. It is
composed of dark soil, which has the appearance of having been turned
up by the plough, but which is covered with a thick salt efflorescence,
which glitters painfully to the eyes. It is absolutely destitute of the
slightest sign of vegetation or of animal life. The surface of the kavir
| is not smooth, but honey-combed, with small holes about 9 inches
, deep and the size of a man’s head, so as to form very difficult walking for
animals ; but as the soil of the kavir binds well, a good road could
doubtless be made over it.

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

The volume covers the provinces of Astarabad, Shahrud-Bustam, and Khorasan, or such part of them as lies within the following boundaries: on the north the Russo-Persian boundary; on the east the Perso-Afghan boundary; on the south and south-west, a line drawn from the Afghan boundary west through Gazik to Birjand, and the road from Birjand to Kirman, and from Kirman to Yazd; and on the west the road from Yazd to Damghan and thence to Ashraf.

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, 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 (from a later edition of the Gazetteer of Persia ), dated January 1917, on folio 397.

The volume also contains a glossary (folios 393-394); and note on weights and measures (folios 394v-395).

Prepared by the General Staff Headquarters, India.

Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.

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1 volume (396 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 398; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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