"دليل بلاد فارس. مجلد I" [و‎‎٨‎٨] (٨٢٠/١٨٠)

sprinkled small junipers, but these end here and are not to be seen farther
west. Water good. Supplies scarce. Close by, in the hills, is a village
Daraz, which pays blackmail to the Turkomans. A shrine to Daniel also
exists in the range which is known as the Kuh-i-Quzluq.—(C. E. Yate ;
Sykes.)
DASHT (No. 5)— Lat. 38° 45' 0" ; Long. 56° 10' 0"—{Napier.)
A wide plateau in the north-west corner of Persia, north of the Ab-i-Sunt,
from which it is divided by low ridges, rising in a gradual slope up to
the main ridge of the Atak range, south of Kizil Arvat.— {Napier.)
DASHT (No. 6)—
A small village in the Khaf district of Khorasan, situated 4 miles south
of Khaf. It consists of 20 houses and 50 inhabitants, and possesses
15 cattle and 2 windmills. The annual production of wheat and barley
(f wheat, £ barley) in ordinary years is about 320 Indian maunds.
Water from a stream.— {C. Wanliss, August 1903.)
DASHT (No. 7)—
A small village in the Bakharz district of Khorasan, about 7 miles
north-west of Shahr-i-Nau. It is inhabited by 30 families of Bakhtiaris.
— {Sykes, 1905.)
DASHT-I-ARMUTLI— Lat. 37° 15' 0" to 37° 25' 0"; Long. 56° 10' 0"
to 56° 50' 0" ; Elev. 3,000'— {Napier.)
A water-shed in Kurdish Khorasan, some 3,000 feet high, which divides
the Kabh-i-Mura system from that of the Gurgan. It is low-lying and
barren, but capable of cultivation.
There is no such plain as the Dasht-i-Armutli. The Karabil valley
gradually narrows, as it goes west, and at Armutll is barely a mile in width,
and half-way to Dasht becomes quite narrow. The road there leaves it and
descends through the hills to the south into the Dasht plain.— {Napier ;
MacGregor; C. E. Yate.)
DASH T-I-GARM A B—
A gently sloping pasture tract in Khorasan,' close to Shurab, on the
Tehran-Meshed road.— {Bellew ; Goldsrnid.)
DASHT-I-KAVIR— Lat. 33° to 36°; Long. 52° to 58°.
The great Salt Desert that occupies the centre of Khorasan. It com-
i mences east of Kum, and stretches nearly due east to the boundary of
Turshiz, fully 400 miles. Its width varies from 80 to 150 miles. It is
composed of dark soil, which has the appearance of having been turned
up by the plough, but which is covered with a thick salt efflorescence,
which glitters painfully to the eyes. It is absolutely destitute of the
slightest sign of vegetation or of animal life. The surface of the kavir
| is not smooth, but honey-combed, with small holes about 9 inches
, deep and the size of a man’s head, so as to form very difficult walking for
animals ; but as the soil of the kavir binds well, a good road could
doubtless be made over it.