'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎296r] (608/820)

Sipah Salar about tbe year 1870. They were dragged, but with a little
labour might have been driven. The hillside is of friable trap and trap
tufts of soft clay and marls.—(iVaps^r.)
NARDlN (No. 3) (Village)—Lat. 37° 2 ' O"; Long. 55° 56' 0 '’'; Elev-
4,170'— (Napier.)
A small town, and principal place of the Nardin district in Khorasan.
Up to about 1730 it was inhabited by some Iskandari ’Arabs and was an
unimportant place. ’All Quli Khan of the Tamrtash tribe, a branch of
the Shadillfi tribe, then left Bujnurd and settled here, building a fort with
eight towers. His descendant Muhammad Hasan Khan later on built
another fort with five towers, and Afr&siab Khan, grandson of Muhammad
Hasan Khan, is the present governor of Nardin. The little town* which
has 300 houses and two mosques, suffered somewhat in consequence of a
severe earthquake which happened on 31st March 1883. Many houses are
infested with poisonous bugs. North-east of the town on the Kuh-i-Danial
stands a small building called the Bukka-i-Danial, and a little less than
a mile beyond this building is an old burial ground in which many grave
stones have the shape of a trefoil, resembling the clubs of playing cards.
The resources of Nardin are estimated as follows ;—
Annual outturn of grain .. .. .. 2,000 kharwdrs.
Transport available for hire; Camels .. 100
Mules and ponies .. IQO
Donkeys .. loo
(Schindler ; Maula Balchsh.)
N ARG AS-1- T APPEH—
An encampment of the Ja’afar Bai tribe of Turkomans on the Kara Sh river
about 5 miles north of Astarabad.— (Holmes.)
NARl— Elev. 1,400'.
A defile and spring near Pas Kamar in Khorasan. The path through the
defile is quite an easy gradient, hanked on both sides by high hills covered
with pistachio trees. A watercourse (which is generally dry) runs down
through the defile.
The water of the Nari spring is bitter. From the spring a path branches
off to ’Unnab in a westerly direction.— (MacLean.)
NARINJ. KALEH (No. 1) or NiRING KALEH—
..'' See “ Jajarm.”
NARINJ KALEH (No. 2)—
A ruined fort in Khorasan, near Ma'amai. Fraser, who visited this
place, gives the following account of it: “ The top of the mountain consisted
of a narrow ridge, with three principal risings of greater breadth. Two
of these, the easternmost, had been crowned by forts, the stone walls of
which were not only visible, but in some places remained still ten feet high.
The westernmost embraced an area of from 50 to 60 square yards, the
interior of which had been occupied by a number of small houses or chain-