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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [59v] (123/722)
The record is made up of 1 volume (384 folios). It was created in 1886-1895. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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u ’Hie peak I climbed is tbo
e Katcha Lar,’ ending with Malik
view : details in my field-book : —
extreme northern peak of
Siah Koh. and I got a most
range
Verbatim Extract from Field-boor.
Note made on Malik Siah Koh Peak ; height of peak 5,567fed.
‘ This » the black rocky peak to the extreme north of the range, with tl.e Malik Siah
Z.avaton.t ; latter js a famous shrine. 1 here is another peak 2* miles distant, bearing
1-d and elevation i o<> which is somewhat higher; another peak exists a mile or two
beyond, there are the three highest in the neighbourhood.
desert U t Se be *" n * S m " »” 4 “ 1 «■* «* ««< my long telescope, an open
‘The Shelag Zirreh (lagoon), to east north-east by east, is clearly visible It is foil
of salt water and stretches away to the east. ‘ J • t is lull
‘Its depth is not known. It is said to be surrounded by grass and reeds, and to be
covered with waterfowl. ts circumference ,s said to he 8 to 10 manzils, say, 140 miles
Near the banks owing to the deep “ kalar * (damp salt and sand), the ground U impa sable
form,nor beast. I can see the Koh, Khwaja, bearing about 19°, but owing to kon up
here I cannot depend at all on my compass. o u up
‘ contininilii n ot‘ the'oozab
lley
Lashlak range to the north is known as Hurmuk band!*' 1I1L Cl)ntlnuall< 11 ot: ^e Dozab-
‘ From here the bearing to the north edge of the Shelag Zirreh is about 97° t? ,
far away in the distance, a black lin> is visible - this is tho lirri i , ‘ b
bearing to Shah Gudar 82° and Gumbazi Sliah 73° Hoth ihoao ' lllin; h Approximate
MacGregor. Drainage flows from all four directions into the Shelag Zirreh/ Were V1S,ted l>J
“ After descending we marched Sj miles to camp here at FT„,mnl, i
uITd a e " C ° nhneS ^ 11,6 Sreat deSeft: # “b 0ns mil “ “f S~vd hills between
Hurinuk lies in Latitude 23° 57' 1J." Longitude 60° 52'
t,°n of 27tU feet and situ.teJ between Malik^Siah Yol, and^ Nawar
Ljadis to Sihkuha route cind 69 miles from former
an eleva-
011 the
Nate made at Si/ikuJia regarding drainage area.
“ wl V le w of Sls I tan > Iviag to the north of lines joinincr Koh i TCI
and Warmal, Warmal and Sihkuha, and Sihkuha andKiih^kTi tf K f 1 " 1
Helmand), is irngated by eanals from the Helmand, wWeh allfllwwest
“The drainage would appear to flow from east to nr^ct ,, .*
the Shelag. The drainage area of this latter swamnTav T SI,Ut '' lnt °
is bounded on the west hv the Lar Hurmnk Tm- I i * ve '^ ^ ar » e one * It
hy the low range of sand and ^el'hiiu^Xt tT"
and forming apparently the water-shed between tb Q Hi i 1 ’ an
Shelag rivers; on the south hy the Koh-i-Sultan range, the souThen, slopes o?
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This volume is Volume I of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1886 edition). It was compiled for political and military reference by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Metcalfe MacGregor, Assistant Quarter Master General, in 1871, and brought up to 31 July 1885 by the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General’s Department in India. It was printed by the Government Central Branch Press, Simla, India in 1886.
The areas of Persia [Iran] covered are Astarabad, Shahrud-Bustan, Khurasan [Khorāsān], and Sistan. The boundaries of the areas covered by Volume I are as follows: the Afghan border from the River Helmand to Sarakhs in the east; and from there a line north-west to Askhabad, due west to the Atrak, which it follows to the Caspian Sea; then along the sea coast to Ashurada Island; then in a straight line to Shahrud; and from the latter south-east to Tabas hill, Sihkuha, and the Helmand, from where the river first meets the south-east border of Sistan.
The gazetteer includes entries on human settlements and buildings (forts, hamlets, villages, towns, provinces, and districts); communications (passes, roads, bridges, canals, and halting places); tribes and religious sects; and physical features (rivers, streams, springs, wells, fords, valleys, mountains, hills, plains, and bays). Entries include information on history, geography, buildings, population, ethnography, resources, trade, agriculture, and climate.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
The volume includes the following illustrations: ‘VIEW OF AK-DARBAND.’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 12v]; ‘PLAN OF AK-KALA.’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 14]; ‘ROUGH SKETCH OF ASTARÁBÁD, FROM AN EYE-SKETCH BY LT.-COL. BERESFORD LOVETT, R. E., 1881.’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 24]; ‘ROUGH PLAN OF BASHRÚGAH’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 40v]; ‘ROUGH PLAN OF BÚJNÚRD’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 48]; and ‘BUJNURD, FROM THE S. W.’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 49v].
It also includes the following inserted papers (folios 51 to 60): a memorandum from the Office of the Quartermaster General in India, Intelligence Branch to Lord Curzon, dated 6 December 1895, forwarding for his information ‘Corrections to Volume I of the Gazetteer of Persia’, consisting of articles on the Nishapur district of the province of Khorasan, and the Shelag river.
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The volume is arranged as follows from the front to the rear: title page; preface; list of authorities consulted; and entries listed in alphabetical order.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 388, these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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