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irrigation, the crops being entirely dependent on rainfall. Supplies pro
curable. They live by grazing large flocks of sheep and goats ; for their
fields produce, at all times, light crops. Shut in by high mountains, except
to the north-east, with an elevation of nearly 7,000 feet and a poor, stony
soil, it is surprising that any population should be able to subsist. But
the Kalat valleys on the north and the higher part of the range are said to
have a population of 8,000 or 10,000, who, in former days, taxed the
efforts of the most powerful rulers of Khorasan to subdue them.— (Napier ;
MacGregor; C. E. Yate.)
BARGAR—
A village of 50 houses, about 17 miles from Kuchan on the road to
Shirvan.— (Schindler.)
BAR-I-MA’DAN—
A sub-district of Nishapur, with 16 villages, some hamlets and a
population of 3,000. Its principal place is Ma’dan, the village with the
• urquoise mines.
(For full description, see article on Nishapur.)— (Schindler.)
BARlN or BARUN— Lat. 34° 8' 0"; Long. 58° V (Walker.)
A walled village in Khorasan, 7 miles north of Tun, 135 miles south of
Nishapur, containing 150 houses and Persian inhabitants.— (Kinneir;
MacGregor; Stewart.)
BARKAMAD—
A large walled village, containing about 300 families, in the Tabas sub
division of the Sabzawar district of Khorasan, situated between Mihrabad
and the village of Tabas, 5 miles from the former and 12 miles from the
latter place. Water good. Supplies procurable.— (Yate ; Mania Bakhsh.
BAR KUK—
A village in the Alghur buluk of the Kain District, Khorasan.— (Bellew.)
BARKULAH—
A village of Astarabad, one march from the south-east corner of tho
Caspian (Bandar-i-Gaz) towards Shahrud.— (MacGregor.)
BARKUT—
The Turk! name for the Siah Kuh mountains, north of the Turshiz district
— (Stewart.)
BARUGHAN—
A sub-division of theBashtin buluk of the Sabzawar district, Khorasan,
consisting of a sandy, barren, broken tract along the skirts of the Kuhmish
range. There are five principal villages with scanty cultivation.— (Napier.)
BARUMASK AN—
A village of Khorasan one stage Irom Turshiz on the road to Sabzawar.
(MacGregor.)