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Y.lGHl ULUM-Lat. 37° 40' 0"; Long. 54° 51' 0" {Intelligence Division,
War Office).
A settlement and ford on the Atrak river, about 60 miles from’its mouth.
The ravine, in which the river flows, is here very wide, and the sides much
torn by torrents. A post office on the Russian side of the frontier.— {Na
pier ; O' 1 Donovan ; Astrakad Trade Report, 1909.)
YAHIA-ABAD—
A village in the Bashtin sub-division of the Sabzawar district in
Khorasan, to the south of the road fromMihr to Ribad. It was in ruins,
and has only recently been re-populated. Water good, supplies scarce.—
{Mania BaJchsh.)
YAKEH TAQLAN—
Name of a pass and ruins of a village between the Shaugha Shahabad
ruins and the village of Armutl>, in the Bujnurd district of Khorasan.
The ruins of the village are situated in a gorge on the right of the road
from Shaugha to Shahabad, at the base of the range, with a small stream
of water with poplars and walnut trees.
The pass has a steep ascent but the soil is soft ; a road with a proper
gradient could be made without difficulty ; there is an abundant supply
of fine grass on the hills, and plenty of trees. The ravines have often
dense coverts.
There is a spring at the foot of the last ascent. The descent to the
south side is long, but easy. The present path is not fit for guns. But
a good road could be laid out. The soil is soft.— {MacLean.)
YAKHAB-
A spring at the foot of the descent of the Bani Tak pass, on the Jam
side. It contains a good supply of fairly good water. From here to Jam
it :’s quite easy going over the plain.— {MacLean.)
YAKLANG-
A village containing 30 families, situated between Nishapur and Qadam-
gah in Khorasan.— {H. M. Temple.)
YALALl— Lat. 38° 27' 0"; Long. 56° 15" 0".
A village in the north-west corner of Khorasan, forming part of the
Kupeh Dagh range.— {Intelligence Division, War Office.)
YALALl CHASHMEH-
A spring from which the main stream of the Gurgan river is said to
take its rise, at the foot of the Guli Dagh range in the Guklan sub-division
of Astarabad, 6 miles from Arkakli, 16 miles from Bindar, 22 miles from
Chaqur, and 40 miles from Shaghal Tappeh. From the chief Arkakli settle-
•ment a road leads north-east up the valley past various little obds of
Arkakli and Kai to the Dari Bukaja obd ; a section of the Kai. Yalali
Chashmeh was about a mile above this.
“ I found that Yalali Chashmeh was not the actual head (source) of the
water (Gurgan river), and, riding on, I found another spring 1 J miles farther