'Report on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for the Central Persia Telegraph Line' [‎32r] (68/300)

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30M September 1898.
Zafarkand. Height 5,732 feet.
Governor ... Mirza Abdullah Khan.
Population
Crops
Supplies
Watsr
Houses
Transport
Labour
Climate
People
Remarks
750.
Wheat 3,000 ; barley 200 ; hay 60; maize 1,000 ;
500; beetroot 1,000 ; turnips 1,000 ; cotton 50.
titles are in maunds of 14 lbs. each throughout.
millet
Quan-
... 3 Kanats; 2 dry and the other slightly brackish.
/'Ordinary sun-dried brick, domed roofs. This village also
\ contains a fine new caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). of kiln brick, 100 by
“* 1 100 yards, built by the munificence of Oosta Hasan
V. Namadfurush, Yezd. There is also a Chappar Kbaneh.
C Mules 20, at 2J krans per diem.
... } Camels 15, at 2 krans per diem.
( Donkeys 60, at 1^ kran per diem.
... 60, at 1 kran per diem.
f Temp.—6 a m., 57 ; 6 p.m., 70. Good climate. Winter
j pretty cold. Snow, for about 3 months in the year,
*”} falls from 5 to 10 times annually. Water freezes 2
months in the year.
fThey talk a Parsee dialect special to themselves, but all
J understand Persian. They seem somewhat ignorant and
*“ j have a great regard for Europeans. Hard-working
agriculturists.
... En route, Kachoo, Havang and Takiabad, 3 large villages,
at which supplies can be obtained in fair quanties,
lying at some distance off the road.
1st October 1898. Natastanbk.
Governor
Mirza Abdullah Khan.
Height 6,161 feet.
Population
Crops
Supplie*
Water
Houses
1,500.
Wheat 5,000 ; barley 3,000 ; also, cotton, melons, apples,
mulberry, apricots.
Bread, milk, fowls, eggs, mutton and other supplies in
fair quantities.
One large Kauat of sweet water. Two others also sweet,
one of which is 24 inches by 5 inches and flows 22 yards
in 15 seconds.
(^Ordinary sun-dried brick, domed roof. This village, like
J Zafarkand, has a fine newly built caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). , the gift
j »of a Yezd merchant, which is of kiln-cooked bricks. It
L has also a Chappar Khaneh.
Transport
f Mules nil.
... 5 Donkeys 100, at 1 kran per diem.
( Camels 100, at IJ kran per diem.
Labour
... 100, at T£ kran per diem.
Climate
( Temp.—6 a.m., 57 ; 6 p.m., 64. Good climate. Spring and
} summer cool; winter very cold. 3 months snow.
(. Freezes hard. Rainfall good.
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