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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [69r] (142/722)
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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lers, who usually halt a clay to bathe in the stream and pay their respects to
the local idol—a mark which those who are so inclined believe is the impres
sion of the foot of Ali. The foot-print has been very neatly carved out on a
block of stone, and is protected by a wooden railing from too close an
inspection.
The village of Astana, though watered only by the salt stream, has fine
o-ardens, trees, and cornfields; it is beautifully situated in a green basin,
shut in on three sides by barren, precipitous heights.— [Napier.)
CHASM A-l-BtJZtJK —Lat. , Long ; Elev.
A spring, 19 miles south of Kain, in Khurasan, on the road from Birjand.—
[Rozario.)
CHASMA-I-KUH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A halting place in Khurasan, 93 miles from Samnan, on the road to Tabbas.
No houses here.— [Ferrier.)
C HASMA-I-MtJHAM M AT) MIRZA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
Fifteen sowars and ten Tufangchis are stationed in the Burj here to protect
the road from Turkman raids. It is about 23 miles south of Mashhad on
the road from Sharifabad. [Rozai io.)
CHASM A IRAKI— Lat. ^ , Long. ; Elev. '•
A spring, 13 miles from Naiband, on the edge of the Dasht-i-Lut, used
by Baluchi marauders to refresh themselves after crossing the Lut.
There are a few date palms here.— [Stewart.)
CHASMA-I-SAtJZ— Lat. , Long j El JT• , -
A small sprino* in Khurasan, 23 or 24- miles from Buznabad, on the road to
Rui Khaf, near the Khaibar range of hills. It is a pasturing ground for
shepherds of the Bahluli tribe, who have a camp near Buznabad; but they
do not have their families here, as it is too exposed to lurkman raids.
A favourite Turkuman raiding road passes by here. In their raids on
Gunabad and the villages of the Tun district, they like halting at this lonely
spring to rest their horses preparatory to a iov&y.— [Stewart.)
CHASMA-I-SHAH HASAN*-Lat ; Long. ; Elev. b
A halting place in Khurasan, 60 miles from Sultanabad (1 urslnz) on the
road to Shahrud. There is no village here nor any supplies except fuel, ine
water is verv scarce and bad.— [Taylor.)
CHASMA-I-SlAH KHANEH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev 7,200b
A spring of deliciously icy cold water in Astarabad close to the village ot
Ziarat on the road from Chardeh to Astarabad.—(Z/oy^b)
C ThTn ™-n"Khdrasan on the^ad from Bh^ Sabzaw^ (Af-
ghanistan)fabout 100 miles from the former place. Ihe water is bad here,
and there are no supplies.— [MacGregor.)
"gssifSft:.. - "SzrAt
line between Persia and Afghanistan. Here there is abundance ot water,
fuel, and lox&ge.—[MacGregor.)
CHASMA SIITjR—Lat. > , b^M^hhad via Tun
The first halting place on the road from Naiband to M^hhadinn,
12 miles from Naiband. The water here is very brackish, but ■
[Stewart.)
* “ King Hasan’s Fountain.”
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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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- 1 volume (384 folios)
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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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