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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎100r] (204/820)

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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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East of Shall Jehan the range bends south-east, and is broken by the
plateaux of Sultan Maidan, Bam, and Safiabad. Rising from there
it forms a high mass known as the Kuh-i-Mihrabad, dividing the districts
of Nishapur and Meshed, falls again at Sharifabad where the lower Meshed
road crosses it, and continues south-east about 180 miles farther to
Bakharz, where it attains again a considerable elevation, and thence on in
a broken line nearly to Farhat on the Herat and Farah road. This chain
may be said to form the southern branch of the east Elburz.
The northern chain is connected with it by an open, elevated tract, divid
ing the Meshed or Hari Rud basin from that of Kuchan on the Atrak.
A line of peaks stretches from a point 30 to 40 miles north of Bujnurd
along the Atak, and thence south-east towards Kalat, supporting to
the south an elevated expanse of down, of easy slope and cultivable, reach
ing to the valley of Kuchan and Shirvan, and to the north falling with
a steep slope to the Atak, and throwing out north-west a line of heights ex
tending for about 100 miles into the desert in low ridges and sandhills, but
falling just short of junction with the Balkan ridge, and elevated pastures
on the shore of the sea. Eastward extend several long, rugged spurs, the
most northern one overhanging the Atrak as far as Darreh Gaz, to the south
of which it falls into the plain ; a second running north of Darreh Gaz, into
the plain between Darreh Gaz and Ab-i-Vard, across which lies the pass of
Allahu Akbar ; a third, a low ridge connecting with the Kalat range.
In the north-east slopes of this line of peaks rises the Darreh Gaz stream
flowing to the Atrak. In the south-west the different tributary streams
of the Atrak, enclosed by spurs, extend far into the Atrak-Gurgan plain.
East of the Allahu Akbar pass the Kalat range extends south-east for
about 180 miles to the Hari Rud, falling north into the Atak, and south
into the plain of Meshed. It has a uniform width of about 45 to 50 miles
and is exceedingly rugged in outline, the spurs running into the Atak
being more precipitous and inaccessible than any other part of the whole
range. The principal elevations, the Kuh-i-’Imarat, Kuh-i-Tamas, Kara
Dagh, and Takkeh-Khaneh—the last eastwards—have a nearly uniform
elevation of about 10,000 feet above the sea level.
The drainage of the east Elburz passes almost entirely to the west and
north. South, the wide plain of Juvain and Isfarain (which is divided
only by a single narrow ridge), with a width of from 30 to 40 miles, and
a length from the border of Nishapur to Riabad west of Jajarm of about
130 miles, is drained by a single narrow and shallow channel known as the
Kal-i-Shur, which flows under the Pul-i-Abrisham. The surface of
the plain is level and the soil fertile; but from lack of water it appears
sterile, and is but little cultivated.
Tiie first pass in the Elburz, east of Astarabad, is one from the Bustam
plain, crossing the chain to Gurgan, a line little likely to be used, and
presenting also great natural difficulties. It was traversed about the year
1870 by a Persian force of 40,000 men with thirty guns. Leaving Bustam
it passes over the plain north-east, crosses a high shoulder of the Khush
Yailaq mountain, into the Naudeh valley at Chanishk, and thence up the
valley to Nardin, the Qalpush plateau, and over a high ridge of the Gurgan.
The total ascent by this route would be from 7,000 to 8,000 feet; the

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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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