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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎89r] (182/820)

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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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overlying a sandy bed, cemented into a compact mass by a solution of
salt. The interior of the desert is entirely devoid of all signs of animal
or vegetable life.
The temperature of the surface of the soil of the lut in the month of April
in the shade at midday was 100° Fakr., and at 18 inches below the surface
was 96° Fahr. The relative humidity of the air was, under the same
conditions, 11-2 per 100 of complete saturation at the temperature of the
air in the shade. This is 0 - 8 per 100 less than the dryness observed by
Baron Humboldt in the Barabinskaya steppe, which he considered to be
the greatest recorded dryness in the surface of the earth.— (Khanikoff;
MacGregor .)
DASHT-I-NAMID or TAG-I-NAMADl—
A plateau in Eastern Khoras&n, extending north and south between
parallel ranges of hills. It extends west as far as the Kuh-i-Ahangaran,
and east to Anardarra in Afghanistan and constitutes the boundary be
tween Persia and Aighanistan. It is covered with excellent pasture, in
which assafoetida, wormwood, orchids, tulips, etc., abound. It derives
its name from the narrdd trees with which it is covered. The chain of
hills which form the eastern boundary is not the straight, well-defined range
shown on the map, but is a tangle of small hills ; there are said to be
several watering-places along the eastern foot of these hills. The nomad
tribes which graze their flocks and herds on this plain have a regular system
of dividing the grazing ground. None of the Persian grazing grounds
are more than 4 miles from the foot of the hills. Beh Bizeh, where there is
a customs post, is the only village actually situated among the hills. There
are two depressions or daqqs in this plain, into which the rivers of the neigh
bourhood drain; one being near An&rdarra and the other more to the
, south.— (Bellew ; Stowart ; Keyes, 1904; Kennion, 1908.)
The name is said to have no reference to lack of water, but tu tto M-V.
zards which sweep over it in winter
DASHT-I-NAUMID —
See Dasht-i-Namld.
DASHT-I-PIAZ (No. 1) (District) —
One of the sub-divisions of the Kain district in Khorasan, which
includes the old sub-division of Nlmbuluk.
The revenue of this sub-division is tumdns 1,239 in cash, and it contains
the following important villages, besides about 35 smaller villages and
hamlets :—
1. Dasht-i-Piaz.
2. Khizri.
3. Kakh.
4. Bushqabad.
5. Salaianl.
6. Dehishk.
7. Muradabad.
48 I. B.
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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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