'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎328v] (675/820)

630 KUD—RUD
Both the Rushkai and Sankiz are rapid streams, with numerous falls.
The former has considerably the greater volume of water.
Thn river Maiaf has its source not far from that of the Incha {q.v.), and
flows in a south-easterly direction till its junction with the Rushkai. Its
vail' y is bounded on the north by the Allahu Akbar range, and on the south
by the watershed of the Kupeh Dagh and the Katas range. In its upper
course the Maiaf is an insignificant stream, but its volume is considerably
augmented by the Maiaf spring, situated near the village of the same
name. The Maiaf valley is narrow and rocky, and only opens out in a
few spots in which villages are situated. It is destitute of trees and the
adjacent hills are unwooded, with the exception of the upper poition of
the Kamas range. The Maiaf is joined on the right by the Durbandi,
which flows into it at the village of Kaukiant.
At the village of Khasur the Maiaf is 5 yards broad, feet deep, and
has a velocity of 5 feet a second.
The Rushkai and Maiaf unite about 4 miles east of the village of Kashur,
and under the name of the Rudfcar flow north-east down a wild ravine,
formed by the Allahu Akbar range on the north and the Kharpush on the
south, and enter the Trans-Caspian depression near the village of Kuzgan.
The valley of the Rudbar is extremely narrow as far as Zangalan’u, is
encumbered with enormous rocks and hemmed in by high, precipitous
cliffs, between which the river rushes down with numerous waterfalls.
Clumps of tamarisk and other trees grow in profusion along the river bank.
Shortly before reaching the new village of Zangalanlu the river emerges
from the defile, and the valley opens out to a width of 600 yards and
is bounded by low, treeless hills. Low r er down the valley again contracts
north of the village of Shamskhan and of the ruined Lushin Kaleh.
The Rudbar has the greatest volume of water of all the streams flowing
into the Trans-Caspian depression to the west of the Hari Rud. A track
runs along the valley, but it is so difficult in the upper portion that it is of
no importance either from a commercial or from a military point of view.
The Turgan falls into the Rudbar at the village of Shamskhan ; it is an
insignificant rivulet, whose waters do not always reach the Rudbar.—
(Oranoffsky, 1894.)
RUD-I-GAZ—
A village in the Bijistan buliik of the Tabas district of Khorasan.—
(Bellew.)
RUD-I-HAIDARI—
A small stream that waters the small, mountainous district of Sar-i-Vila-
iat, one of the districts of Meshed, Khorasan.— {Napier.)
RUD-I-J AGHARQ—
A stream in Khorasan, which courses down into the Meshed plain from
the Binalud range through the Jagharq {q.v.) valley.— {Rozario.)
RUD-I-KAYlR—
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