'Military Report of the Nushki-Chagai-Western Sinjarani Country' [‎89r] (182/302)

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j Klian Kala to New Bazar (Kach-Harnai-Sibi route) crosses
^Pishin Lora neUKer the Lora proper, nor any o( its tributaries within
the olain of Pishin, can be passed by artillery.
1 From Sesi the Lora runs nearly south for about 5 miles to Rah.m
Kakar a vdlage on the left bank. Here there is another crossing. A
little lower down the river receives a small affluent from the west. It
is the Tirkha (or Tarkhar) salt stream, which collects the drama g e
of the whole south and west of the Pishin valley. From Samad to this
point the character of the Lora —ins unaltered The w.dth of the
channel is from 200 to 250 yards, and its de P t '' f ‘ f ° , £eet j j e
banks are scarped, and the bottom is an expanse of sand and clay
almost bare of vegetation, over winch a shallovy stream Hows in Severn
channels, as above described. From Rah.m Kakar downwards th e left
bank shows bluffs of some height which are tepe^ed here au
a(t far as Buri They are the ends of narrow elevated plateaux, risin
between nZ Jhic'h descend <™m the Mashalak range. .The^actual
banks, however, diminish rapidly in height below the
alluvial soil of the plain and enters gravelly deposits, so that be^ow t
confluence of the Tirkha there are many places where a “P'— n (ronl
ride across. At Rurj the banks are ^.3 ‘^+5^ ove ® Single and
100 to 150 yards apart, tli t S ^ crosses the Lora
coarse gravel. Above Burj the kaji to the south-west,
by an easy ford. Below the river bends de “’le^efonh a '
and at a mile from the village enters the h ‘‘' s > a ““ m ‘” g the river b et-
totally different character. The portion o conveniently termed
ween this point and the Shoraw-ak plain may be convenmMy^ ^ a
Middle Lora. The channel of the river is^now among
width of 50 or 60 yards, and winds 1 ^ 6 mi , PS are difficult
the spurs of the enclosing ranges. having to be crossed
to follow, there being no sort of path, and the river^ ^ A[
and re-crossed continually. This 1 P rece i v es the Shorn Rud
about 8 miles in a straight line from Bur, the Lora ^receives ^ ^
(y. 0.), its only considerable aflluen . K , t M un g a char, Mastung,
and brings with it the whole drainag W ater of the northern part
Gurgina, Kardagap, etc. ; in act, ,11 ° 1 From here the Lota valley
of the Kalat highland runs into this channen the re are large
is wider and can be easily follow • an( j w hich might without
flats of alluvial soil convenient for ca P » s h r ubs are not scarce, and
difficulty be cultivated. Tamarisk an [Pistacia cabulical),
the high hills are dotted with shne or ^urce of subsistence
whose harvest of berries ripens in Augus , ,i m iles below the
to the nomadic inhabitants of the coun isolated rocks on the left
junction of the Shora Rud are two con p . , ^ which enters
Lnk. Theyarecalledjangur, aname a^appl.ed h toa hood The river
by them, and more or less to the nor f h resuming its course
here makes a sharp, but short, tv J™ . , d i rec ti 0 n. The Lora valley
immediately afterwards in a south-w rp y < , nurs and a confusion of low
is now several miles wide : on the le a P ’ u £) a sht ; on the right
hills coming down from the plateau no\ boun ding the Pinake plain
3 high range, "hich is the t—na^of th^boun^^^^. ^ or ^
on the east, and called Kargar.