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Moaotains,
north of Makran and flow in a general southeidy direction
towards the sea. They are not navigable and only after
heavy rain do they possess any considerable volume of
water. Usually they are fordable almost everywhere, and in
the hot weather they nearly dry up, so that the main
caravan routes run along their courses. The Dashtiari
Chil is the name given to the combined streams of the
Xahang, Sarbaz and Kaju rivers. The only river of any
military importance is the Rapch, known in its upper
reaches as the Bint or Fanuch, which enters the sea by
two mouths, 9 miles apart, the western at Khur Rapch,
and the eastern at Khur Galag (See under Harboicrs—
Gulag). Both estuaries have shallow bars with deep water
inside. Khur Rapch is the more considerable by reason
of its large tidal breakwater, and would be a better landing
place in rough weather, but the bar at both places has
silted up, and it is doubtful to what extent it can be used
even by small boats except at high tide.
Like the rivers of Makran, the Bampur and Mashkil
rivers in Bampur and Dizak districts respectively have
but little water in them except after heavy rain, when
alone they would offer any military obstacle.'
Properly speaking, there are no lakes in Persian
Baluchistan. T he northern drainage of the Lashar hills
and that of the Bampur river, with its tributaries, runs
into the Jaz Murian Plamun, which also receives the Halil
R^d and other minor streams. This hamun, though of
considerable extent during the rainy season, almost dries
np during the summer months, all its water being lost
>\ e\ aporation. 1 o the west of Khwash is another small
hartmn of no importance, the jChah-i-Gabl Hamun,
vdnch is similarly generally dry. The Mashkil
Hamun in British territory absorbs the Mashkil, Talab,
Kalaghan and Jalk rivers. The other numerous water
courses and nalas with which the country is covered seldom
have any running water in them, though it can, in most
paces, be found by digging in their beds, the water level
being about 4 feet below the surface.
The Kuh-i-Taftan or Chehil-Tan which is 12,681 feet
a^ove sea level, is a volcano in the Solfatara range
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