Coll 29/40 'Seistan: sale of consulate land' [‎5r] (9/443)

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(1) Clause /III of the .jic^ahon Award reads^'i caruiOt cTo^
this Award without a word of warning to ooth countries concerneiB*
The past history of the nelmand river in iieiatan shows that it
has al vays been subject to sudaen and important changes in its
course which have from time to time diverted the whole river into
a new channel and rendered useless all the then eaciating canal
systems* Such changes are liable to occur in the future, and
Treat care should, therefore, be exercised in the o;>eninT out of
and Teraif", Cl}
a in the past the river appears to have nad two main
tas; the Northern which starts from Auhaxi, and the southern,
starting from a point some 40 milas further south, and following
the Hud*1•Bayabea<vSi Accurate information o^ the ,eriod for which
the river occupied either delta is scanty but the following
approximate dates are known with reasonable certainty
,j* 660 The helmand wa. in its Northern D«1 !*• J
A # D. 1385 The Helnaand had changed into the iouthern aelta
somri 300 years beforet?4)but its eters xa had
been dammed and flowed into the northern delta.
This was destroyed oy Timur* in 1 the water followed
the Rud-i-Bayaban ch^ni.el.U)
it was sometime in this period that, during a
year of great flood, the Helmanu abandoned the
’lua-i-oayaoan cnannel and tooi to tne Mortaern
delta Ail x c h it now feifows. Cb J
This is as much as isOcurutely known auout the oscillations of
the helmand between the Northern and Coutnem deltas. If any
conclusion can be drawn from the above dsta it apjears to oe that
the Helmand takes some 300 years to silt up eitner delta to such
an extent that a change of course is made; and that some 60 years
remain out of the current 300 yaars.
(3) Now to consider the fluctuations of the nelmand
in the northern delta which it has occupied since the year 1690.
" The entrance of the river on (sic) the Northern delta has always
been a fixed point or moveable only within certain narrow limits
A.D, 1693
to
a, 5* mi
Revenue
Report 7ol.
II page 339.
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