"دليل بلاد فارس، المجلد I ويشمل محافظات أستراباد، شاهرود-بوستان، خراسان، وسيستان" [ظ‎‎١‎٤‎٥] (٧٢٢/٢٩٥)

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Tun and Tabas, names of two districts whose chief towns are of the same name—
Arab-i-Reiguni ... 7,000 houses and tents ... Language, Persian.
Kaln district and town—
Arab
Nekhi
12,000 houses and tents
Number not known
j Language, Persian.
Sarhaddat, meaning the tribes on the frontiers of Mashhad—
Taimuri
Mardi
Muzdurani ...
Chula!
Turkla Jelayu ...
Laks and others
Turkia Janishlu
Lak and other tribes
Bayat and Khurshah!
Miscellaneous .,.
Kelijex
Zafaranlii
Kivanlu
Amanlu
2,000 tents and houses
700 houses
130 houses
2,000 houses and tents
1,500 houses
1.500 houses and tents.
3,000 tents and houses
2.500 tents and houses.
10,000 houses
1,000 houses
2,000 houses
14,000 houses and tents
2,000 houses and tents
1.500 houses and tents
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Live at Kazghun.
Turks are dispersed in
various places.
Language, Persian; live
at Peri Bast, 20 miles
from Mashhad.
Turks.
Turks ; live at Kalat-i-
Nadir!.
Laks.
Turks ; they live at N!-
shapur.
Live in Sabzawar; lan
guage, Turkish.
Turks; in the district of
J uvam.
Laks; live at Kuchan.
Laks ; live at Bujnurd.
Laks ; live at Mardashk.
A well-informed writer states that a vivid recollection of the old Herat
Mission still prevails in Herat and IChurasan; and although very sensi
ble of Russian power, the people and their chiefs would be in the main
ready to receive us on the faith of past goodwill and benefits conferred.
Southward from Sistan to the coast, the country is little known, but
probably thinly peopled with robber tribes of Baluch blood. The im
probability of any operations taking place in this district renders further
detail unnecessary.
The inner rind of Khurasan, which has in fact no centre, is inhabited
chiefly by Persian tribes. In the districts of Karman and Yazd the Arab
element begins to appear, while the whole south and east is chiefly of
Arab blood.
Khurasan has within itself every variety of climate; but all those districts
which border upon the desert, that stretches from Irak to Sfstan, are arid and
subject to extreme heats; and in some parts the inhabitants are, during a few
weeks in summer, compelled to avoid exposure, lest they should be destroyed
by pestilential winds, or buried in the clouds of sand, with which they are
often accompanied. But, notwithstanding this partial evil, Khurasan may
be said to possess a fine and salubrious climate.
The soil of the various districts is very varied in its quality and character.
The north-west, north, and north-east districts enjoy a very rich soil, and,
being abundantly irrigated, are all extremely productive of corn. Mashhad,
too, is in a rich and well-watered plain; Daraghaz and Kuchan are said to
be so fruitful, that dry gram yields a hundred and rice four hundred fold;
Turshiz is mostly wild and uncultivated, except near the town itself;
Turbat again is fruitful; and Nfshapur is situated in one of the richest and
best irrigated plains in Persia.