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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [101r] (206/722)
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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A mile above Gumesh Tapa the height of the river bank does not exceed
5 or (> feet, and at the village itself is not more than 3 feet at low water,
ihis height it preserves down to its mouth. When the river is at its
ordinary level, rt has a current of about half a mile an hour. ' During flood
time the speed is between 3 and 4 miles an hour.
At its embouchure the distance between the northern outlet at Gumesh
J a pa and the southern channel at Khojih Nefis is 4 miles. The westerly
unbroken ridge of the Ala-Dagh mountain divides the drainage basins of the
Atrak and Gurgan.
Even when the water is lowest in the Gurgan, lodkas can and do go a
couple of miles above Gumesh Tapa. At present they could go laden as
far as Ak-Kala bridge by being towed. At Gumesh Tapa the bed of the
river consists of a blue-black and very adhesive loamy clay. Its name
signifies a desert. The water, though not clear, is sweet anil very drink
able when its mud has been allowed to settle. The Turkmans swear by it.
Nothing can exceed fhe richness of the land through which this river flows.
About three miles breadth on either side of it is cultivated with the finest
wheat and barley.— [MacGregor, Connolly, Vambery, O’ Donovan.\
GURGU —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
Some hills in Northern Khurasan, on the north side of the Nardin plain or
lake basin, about 8 miles west by north of Jah Jarm.— (MacGreaor.)
GURJAN.
A name of the northern gate of Astarabad, otherwise known as the Chahl-
Dakhtar.— ( MacGregor.)
GURMAH —Lat. , Long. ; Elev. / .
A village in Khurasan, 18 miles north-west of Khur, on the road to Tabbas.
[MacGregor.)
GUSHA —Lat. , Long. ; Elev. / .
A village in the KhushNeh subdivision of the Kain district of Khurasan.—
[Bellew). 1 . -
GITS HI— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A place in the Atak on the north-east border of Khurasan to which the
Hindi war pass leads.— [Thomson.)
GUSKAN or GUSKAM— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in Khurasan, some 20 miles east of Mashhad, on the road to
Sarakhs. It contains 150 houses of Tafmuris.—( Burnes, MacGregor.)
GUVESH.
A stage in Khurasan, 24 miles east of Mashhad, on the road to Daraghaz.
— [Kinneir).
GUZIK— Lat. 32° 55' 40", Long. 60°12 / 0"; Elev. 7 ; [Walker).
The chief village of the Suni-Khana subdivision in the Kain district of
Khrirasan. It lies on the road from Bfrjand to Herat, and about 55 miles east
of the former town. It is the frontier village of Khurasan on this road, and
is situated in an amphitheatre about 2 miles in diameter, surrounded on
all sides but the south-south-east by hills. It is an ugly, uninteresting
village, with the usual domed-roofed houses and the mud fort which accom
panies all Khurasan villages. According to others a flourishing village built
on a stream. The cultivation of this place has a diameter of about 3 miles,
the village being situated in the south-east corner under the hill. It con
tains some 300 houses; according to Stewart 1,600 inhabitants. The fort is
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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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