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3 YAZD-I-KHAST
441 m.
15 m. General direction N.
by E. The road ascends
gently over rising ground
covered with grass, and at 2 ndles enters some low hills. At
2^ miles a dry watercourse is crossed, then a low watershed,
and then the road runs along a dry stream bed down a valley.
1 a, roii At 4^ miles the stream is left, and the track descends over a
small c l(7 great open slope to 8| miles, when the road, passing through a
1 gup m a chain of hillocks, runs amongst some pools of brackish
‘, s water su PpIied by a spring on the right, the water of which is
re erej| fit for transport animais only. Thence along a dry watercourse
ml qoitftj for a few yards, and over the open Yazd-i-Khast plain, extending
se, mn4: W. out of sight, and to the E. for about 13 miles. At! 114 miles
itierside, a considerable extent of wheat cultivation, extending right and
p alsoasi: left, is passed. At 13 miles the road passes between a low chain
side (lies of hills on the left and a few isolated hillocks on the right. Then
1 runs do. on till Yazd-i-Khast is reached at 15 miles. This is the name
’red wit:! of a large circular cistern which stands on the plain, near which
road cent the Yazd-i-Khast ittts pitch their camps in the spring. The
•y water, tribe, which never removes from the plain, possess large herds
:ro\v tar; and flocks.
i a few pn:
. clayey i
is follows
y a drp
valley, t
hills, m
Water. —Plentiful.
Fodder .—Good grazing.
Supplies. —Nil.
4 HAjlABAD
52 m.
m. General direction N.
by E. The road is
good, and runs over
hills nr l ? lam to ” miIes ’ where it enters some low hills, through ’
elv dr u'' -V 1 l -‘* Passes, following up the course of a stream. ‘ At 3
n/stlon mi eS ? run 1 S over more °P en ground. The stream bed is here
’ iuui an d the track leads out over a steep ascent up the'
in mw T i ght ba 5 lk ; At miIes the road again descends into the
lIL^ eam , b6d f ld P roceeds U P ^ by a bad road between lofty hills.
• j£ff n through a gap four feet wide in a rocky ridge, after which
Li | erc a ^ tber stee P ascent '> and at 5J miles a low watershed is
LIT 8 ^ b'? 18 followed b J a steep and difficult descent, and
dose l). then over broken ground to 64 miles. Then over stony ground
at the foot of the hills until Kajlab'd is reached at miles.
11ns is an indilferent road and impassable to guns. Hajiafcad is