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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎186v] (383/820)

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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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352
KHO—KHO
From this it contijiues in a north-easterly direction to the Kuh-i-Kurkhud
opening out for a space on the Broad, undulating slopes of the Qalpush
plain and the Dasht-i-Armutli, whose elevated plateaux form the water
shed between the drainage of the Gurgan and the Kaleh-i-Mura system.
So far, the range throws out no great spurs, except that of the Kuh-i-
Jehan Mftra, which leaves it above Shahkuh and runs towards the
Caspian. On the north the range descends steeply to the basin of the
in a southerly direction as far as Siah Kuh, a hill in the north of Sistan.
Gurgan; and on the south spurs, viz., those of the Kuh-i-Baba and
Kuh-i-Buhar, are short and unimportant. There is, however, a ridge,
which may be called the Maiamai ridge, that would seem to have its origin
in a spur, which, starting from Khush Yallaq, bounds the valley called
Pusht-i-Bustam on the south, runs east of Bustam and then, turning nearly
due east, is broken up into more or less disconnected ridges round Maiamai
—where, however, there is an apparently isolated peak, which rises to a
height of 6,000 feet above the sea level.
From the Kuh-i-Kurkhud the main range runs on, under the name of
“Aleh-Dagh,” south-west of Bujnurd, past the Darband-i-Firuzeh, to the
Kuh-i-Takht-i-Mirza, whence a spur, called the Kuh-i-Saluq, which encloses
the Shaughan valley in the-south, is thrown out to the south-west. From
the Aleh Dagh other spurs run down towards the Atrak, one of which en
circles the Bujnurd basin on the north; while from the Takht-i-Mlrza
(“The Prince’s Seat”) rises the ridge, which encloses it on the south.
From“ The Prince’s Seat” the main range runs east by south, and then
south-east, and under the name of the Kuh-i-Shah Jehan bounds the
Kuchan valley in the south, and under that of Kuh-i-Binalud lies to the
south of the Meshed valley.
At this point it will be well to consider the range which runs along the
whole northern frontier of Khorasan. Its connection with the range now
being described is maintained by a watershed thrown out from the northern
range at the Hazar Jarib near the Kuh-i-Tahmasp, and forming a ridge
between the valleys of Radkan and Ja’afarabad. From the Kuh-i-Tahmasp
the range runs east-south-east and west-north-west. In the latter direction
it opens out into a high undulating plateau, called Maidan-i-Khuni, and
then runs past Kuh-i-Duz, round the head of the Duringar drainage, to
a point above Askhabad. Th; nee it continues in one unbroken line to
close on to the Caspian, where the old bed of the Oxus is supposed to have
entered that sea. The east part is called the Qaran Dagh ; the western,
the Kupeh Dagh. On the north this range, as far as is known, throws out
no large spur ; but on the south there are some considerable offshoots
between the Sunt and the Chandir, and between the latter and the Atrak,
also, one which divides the Kushkaneh valley from that of Ziristan.
From the point above Askhabad, noted, the ridge changes its character
to the extent that, whereas west of that point the main spurs are thrown
out to the south, east of it they are thrown out to the north. The first of
tiles'! is a ridge, which runs parallel with the main range, and, bounding the
Duringar valley on the north, is known at its end, if not throughout its
whole length as the Zarrin Kuh.

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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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