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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎282v] (581/820)

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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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542
MES-MES
f _ . . C Summer, 20 Tumdns
| Ka^awahmule Iwhrt^ 24 „
Meshed to Yazd ' Palki mule | ^utumer, 16 „
^Winter, 18 „
. (Summer 10 „
Samishin | wintet 12 _
(Sarnishin is one man riding with about an Indian maund, of kit.)
N.B.— Weights —
100 mans~equal 1 Jcharwdr.
1 kharwdr equals 649 !b, or about 8 Indian maunds.
(Curzon; C. E. Yale ; Khordsdn Trade Report, 1901-05; W. R. Battye,
1906; Redl, 1906; Reunion, Smyth, 1906.)
MESHED (No. 2) (District)—
A district of Khorasan, which extends from the city of Meshed north-
Area west up the valley as far as Saiyich h, about 60 miles ;
south, to the Turbat-i-Haidari border about 40
miles ; west, to the watershed of the Binalud range, 20 miles ; east, to the
Hari Rud about 100 miles; north-east, to Kalat 60 m les. An area of 6,000
to 7,000 square miles, of which 2,000 may be set down as level valley or
p 1 ateau land, more or less cultivable when there are facilities of water.
The remaining area includes high mountain ranges, rising to 8,000 or
9,000 feet, and showing but few cultivable spots and scanty herbage for
cattle.
Though, owing to the cessation of the Turkoman raids and maintenance
of peace, the district has considerably recovered, and a large number of new
villages have been built, and old irrigation channels repaired during the last
20 years, the whole of the cultivable tract has not yet been brought under
cultivation.
The finest villages lie along the Kashaf Rud and hidden in the barren
y.,, ravines of the Mihrabad and Kalat ranges, where
small perennial streams support a luxuriant growth
of garden and vineyards, but little or no corn land. In Jagharq, the finest
example of these “ garden ” villages, the grain ra sed is actually by about
half insufficient for the population of the village. The villages on the
Kalat or northern range are in this respect in a slightly better situation ;
for the hill slopes are there less steep and rocky, and yield grain crops
dependent on rainfall only. From Meshed to Herat the road is too well
known to call for remark. It is practicable for wheeled carriage.
The valley of the Kashaf Rud from Chinaran to Meshed forms the sub-
Valley of the Kashaf district Mian-i-Vilaiat, while the country south-east
Rud, Mian Vilaiat of Meshed is called Pain-i-Vilaiat (middle and
and Pain Vilaiat. lower country); many of the villages of the Mian-i-
Vilalat sub-district are inhabited by the Kaivanlu Kurds.

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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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