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GUDlR-I-CHINAR— Lat. 35° 33' 0"; Long. 58° 3' 0"; Elev. 5,590'—
(Stewart.)
A pass in Khorasan, on the road from NIshapur to Yazd, and 77 miles
from the former town. The ascent and descent are easy, and nowhere
very steep ; but the road goes a great deal up and down small spurs, and
is in some places impassable for artillery ; it could, however, be easily
made practicable.— (Gill.)
GUDAR-I-DANGl—
An easy pass on the road from Turbat-i-Haidari to Meshed, and 44 miles
from the former town. It passes over the low watershed separating the
valley of Safid from that of Kafir Kaleh, and is practicable for both wheeled
and camel transport. A small stream, the Gulbukra, flows down from
the watershed past Kafir Kaleh.—(G. Wanliss, August 1903.)
GUDAR-I DARAKHT-I-BANA—
A pass in Khorasan, 9 miles from Dasht-i-Tiaz, on the road to Kakh*
It is the point of junction where the Laki range and the Siah Kuh hills
meet. The ascent to the pass from the south is gradual up the stony bed
of a ravine ; but the descent on the north is by a narrow footpath impass
able in wet weather for camels, and it would require metalling for guns.
It forms the boundary between the districts of Kain and Tabas.— (Gold-
smid; Bellew.)
GUD AR-I-DARRGD—Ele v. 9,390'.
A pass in Khorasan, whose summit is 15 miles from Jaghrq, on the
road to KIshapur from Meshed ; affording an extensive view of the plain
of Meshed on the one side, and that of Nishapur on the other. The
ascent from the east is very steep and difficult, and the descent is even
more so. The road is narrow and rocky, and utterly impracticable for
guns or even camels. It is only passable at all in summer. The heights
cannot be crowned, but it is said that the pass can be turned from Darrud.
The range runs from north-west to south-east; gradually subsiding
towards the latter direction, but in the former rising into the lofty snow-
clad mountains of Khavar and Binalud.
Yate rode up to the summit of the pass, distant about 3 miles from Robat-
i-Pa-i-Gudar, which is 9 miles from Jagharq. The first portion has a
gradual ascent, but then comes a very steep pull up the side of the hill,
and after an hour’s climb one lands on a ridge near a stone hut, built for
the protection of travellers caught in a storm when crossing. Another
^ twenty minutes lands one at the summit. Taking 6,910 feet to be the
height of the robdt, as marked on the map, there is a rise of about 1,515 feet
to the hut and of 2,325 feet to the summit according to the aneriod, the
height of the pass by it being 9,235 feet. The top of the range looks as if it
could be ridden over, and in spring is said to be covered with rich grass.
Large numbers of nomads come up during May and June, Baluchis from
the Nishapur side and Timuris from the Meshed side, and their black tents
and flocks are then to be seen in every ravine where water is. About a
farsalch to the north-west of the pass stands the Lukk-i-Tarsa, the
peak apparently marked on the map as 10,112, and 2 farsakhs beyond
that again, a still higher peak named Lukk-i-Shirbad, but the height of