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IRANI THAI GAR.—Lat. 28° 40'; Long. 64° 5' ; Kiev. 4,960'.
,0 , ng nor th-north. W est of Malik Surinda and
west of the Nushki-Ladgasht road.
IRA ^i r , HAL REG ‘” Lat ‘ 28 ° 39 '; Long. 64° 5' ; Kiev.
The desert west of Irani Thai Gar. (See HIrani Thai Gar.)
IRKA FT— Lat. ; Long. ; Elev.
A waterless halting-place, 44* north by east of Kirtaka, on the elevated
rfas/it plain, on the road thence to the Helmand. (Webb-Ware>
SAT A A . H ! R ‘“ L , at * 28 ° 35, 2 °' /; Lon ^ 6 3 ° 5 ' 20"; Elev. 1,800'.
A halting-place a little to the north of the Mashkel Hamun on a route
rom Pam ham to Amir Chah and Chahar Burjak on the Helmand. It lies
in a nnla which drains into the Hatmin. According to the map this
n( ! a 1S .® call ed Isatahir, and the camping-ground is one of the few
places in Mahomedani country where wells exist
. ' r ! , u re , i . s . g °? d c , ara P in g-gro“nd here and abundance of wood and grass,
but the latter is of a thorny species. '
Pamham is 10^ miles distant by a good road, and Kondi or Nihri, the
next stage towards Amir Chah, is 24 miles. Amir Chah is one long stage
from Kondi, 35 miles, but the road is good the whole way. (MacGregor
—Ahmad Ah Khan.) *
Also a halting-place on the Dalbandin-AmirChah road, southern route,
and 113^ miles from former.
The water is in a spring on the left bank which is marked by two or
three date palm trees, % mile to the north,
P. C. bearing—
To Koh-i-SuItan . . ,
,, Malik Naru , . t # ’ * o t o
It is perfectly sweet and potable. The water fo’rms a small pond,
about four yards square and two feet deep in deepest part. The water
flows in as fast as it is bailed out.
In the «n/«-bed there is plenty of water, but it is brackish and not
potable. It appears in places in the bed of the na/a for a mile up-stream
and 2 miles down-stream. ^ >
I he bed of the na/a is thickly wooded with tamarisk and tagaz trees ;
also a very few date palm trees. ^
Camping-ground.— and open.
Supphes.—Nit. (From the signs in the tfa/a-bed, occasionally flocks
of sheep and goats may be met with.) J
bodder.—\ small amount of dhub and vega in the rca/tf-bed and some
thorny grass called kandar.
and^^ ^ r ^”^’~~ Very abundant anc ^ g° ocJ > consisting of lana^ tagaz }
EhlS district ifn^ed for the amount cf chinkara, and in the nala there
In tL fres ^ tra ^. ks °I sheep, goats, chinkara, and thegor or wild ass.
alt -'T , th K re i are e ge ? erall > rafeW ducks ia ^he reaches of
salt water in the na/a-bed. Snakes are very common.
• around h as ^he appearance of being one enormous depres*
been H P f arterres of P[ atea ux. Has every appearance of once having
befner veil ^ r the i/f The Strata 0n tbe banks of the P^teaux
being well marked. Could find no fossils, (fioome.)