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the map, but roughly corrected in red ink.
This will explain the unwarrantably gloomy view I took of the possibility of
getting a continuous workable grade for a single line over this short length.
The descent from the summit, E. L. 2 , 600 , to Shenzi, E. L. 1 , 900 , is not
very difficult on a ruling grade of 1 — 50 .
The section follows the Molhar nulla for
a couple of miles in fairly easy country where development is possible on both
sides. Then, as the valley grew narrower and development no longer appeared
possible, I turned to the east along the path to Nag Kalat for three miles,
over a narrow glacis between hisrh, parallel ridges. As the path did not fall
m the required direction, I turned south-west along another path leading
diagonally to the plain on a tolerably easy gradient through a succession of
narrow ridges.
It will be seen from the section that four miles of this alignment are
practically wasted as they are on the level. The correct alignment, instead of
leaving the Molhar nulla, and making this four-mile detour, should follow
its general direction to its debouchement on the Shenzi plain. The levels
where I recrossed the Eod Khan path and the Molhar nulla {vide section)
prove that the ruling grade would be obtainable by a much shorter route than
that I followed.
The alignment from the Shenzi (Kolwa) plain to Turbat. a distance of
70 miles, requires very little description. It should follow the southern bank
of the Kil Kaur now called the Kech Eiver, rising and falling over the glacis
between the mountains and the river.
I he grades would be easy. The fall of the river is not more than 1— 200 ,
so 1—125 should easily be obtained by a surface line.
For about eight miles near Eahgiwaran the valley is narrow, and the
nullas from the hills have formed rather deep channels, so a good deal of
minor bridging will be required. Elsewhere the works will be very lioffit;
surface or nearly so. ‘ °
A peculiarity of this glacis is that it is conglomerate rather than shingle, so
foundations will give no trouble. At Herokh a low chain of mounds lines the
river as far as Sami. The alignment should be immediately in rear of it.
Sami and Sharak, two fair-sized date groves on the opposite bank, mile
337 , are the first villages of Kech. Thence to Turbat the valley is wider and
uninhabited, and the line is, if anything, rather easier.
Kathag Fass alternative .—The alternative route over the Kathag Pass is,
as has already been stated, the correct route to adopt for a railway to Pasni;
for even, should the cost of the works equal those on the Tang-i-Pusht-Nag
Kalat route, the difference in length between the two lines, a matter of 19
miles, should decide in favour of the shorter alignment. The section, it will be
observed, is taken from Tang-i-Pusht to Sami-ud-din, but the railway would
naturally follow the dotted line on the sketch straight from the mouth of the
gorge already mentioned, at mile 10 from Gumbak.