'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎330v] (679/820)

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RUS—RUS
the Saiyid declared that one of the rooms inside contained ten or fifteen
skulls and skeletons.
Three or four miles to the north of Sankhas is a large and fine robdt,
some 2 miles from the present village of Kill. This robdt formed one
of the stages on the ancient high road from Gurgan to Meshed,
which, the Sani-ud-Dauleh says, ran from Gurgan by Ears, Dehaneh-i-
Gurgan, Dehaneh-i-Dasht, Karabil, ’Ishq, Kill, Qarajeh, Nasirabad, Sultan
Maidan, Hasanabad, Chambar Chlrbal, Saidabad, and Shankaleh to
Meshed, at all of which places the"e were robdts or rest-houses.
The probability is that the robdt and ruined town described above were
the Nasirabad of this route.”— {C. E. Yate.)
RGSHANABAD—
A village in Astarabad, about 8 miles west of Astarabad town, on the
road to Bandar-i-Gaz. There is a mausoleum (undmzddeh) here very like
an English church.— {MacGregor.)
RtSHAN’AVAN—
A village and fort in Khorasan, 74 miles from Gunabad. It cons’sts
of about 200 houses, mostly outside the fort, surrounded by a slight mud
wall. There is a fine tank of burnt brick, which is only opened in the hot
weather. The water is as cold as ice. There is a scanty supply of slight
ly brackish running water from a spring in the high ground to the west.
Supplies, plentiful.— {Forbes; Watson, 1907.)
RUSHAYAND—
A village in the Alghur buluk of the Kain district of Khorasan.—
RUSHKAI—
See Rudbar (River.)
RUSHKHAR or RASRKHAR—
A village in the Turbat-i-Haidari district of Khorasan, on the road
between Khaf and Turbat-i-Haidari, 40 miles from the former and 3U
miles from the latter. It bears a prosperous look and consists of 700
houses wi h a population of about 2,800. The village possesses 300
cattle, 4,000 sheep and goats and 30 camels. The annual production of
wheat and barley in ordinary years (f wheat, £ barley) is about 10,800
Indian maunds. There is a telegraph office in connection with the Meshed-
Sistan line, and also several shops with Russian cotton goods. Out
side the village are a number of orchards, well supplied with fruit trees
and wines. The water-supply is abundant and there are 12 water-mills,
each capable of g'inding 10,800 Indian maurds in 24 hours. The Russians
have a post of 6 Persian savdrs in connection with the quarantine cordon. The
principal men in the village are ’Abdul Faiz Khan and Zulfikar Khan,
descendants of Is-haq Khan, the founder of modern Turbat-i-Haidari.—
(Wardiss, 1903 ; Watson, 1906.)
RUSHKHAI—
A large village in the Darreh Gaz district of north-eastern Khorasan, con
sisting of 500 Persian families, who own 350 cattle and 7,000 sheep and