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just at the landing, which is too steep to be good for pack animals, but
would easily be ramped. Ford not practicable for baggage animals Or
non-swimmers when I arrived (March), nor the next ford 2 miles below
Chahar Burjak, which has a hard shingle bed/’
Puz Mashi. —The Seistan Boundary Commission made use of this ford
in crossing over to the right bank on February 20th, 1903. Some 2,300
animals and 1,450 men crossed during the day without a single casualty.
The bottom was shingle and sand and scoured considerably after several
hours, but the depth at no time exceeded 5 feet.
Between Landi Muhammad Amin and Bandar-i-Kamal Khan the aver-
^ , „ age width of the valley is about 2 miles. The
ascription 0 t e va ey. c ]jg s on e jther side rise to a height of about 100
feet, and between these cliffs is enclosed the strip of alluvial soil border-
ing both sides of the river-bed.
Immediately west of Landi Muhammad Amin rises the prominent mass
of short ranges called the Koh-i-Khan Nashin. This is the only hill in the
country and rises to an altitude of a little over 2,000 feet above the plain
and is composed apparently of black igneous rock. Two streams take
their rise from this range ; one flows into the Landi valley plain and the
other to the west where it empties its waters into the Helmand to the north-
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into a mass of broken ground, much cut up by the drainage, which, rising
in the hills, finds its way into the Helmand. These vary in character, the
majority being shallow and only one being deeply cut.
The left bank of the river between Landi Muhammad Amin and Deshu
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is high and the slopes of the Koh i-Khan, running down to the river edge,
make irrigation impossible, and consequently there is no cultivation.
The average width of the alluvial strip on the right bank between
Khan Nashin and Mala Khan is about miles, but here the right bank
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hugs the bluffs and continues to do so as far as opposite Deshu.
Two miles below the ruined fort of Lower Khwaja Ali the valley
on the left bank widens out into a wide bay, and for nearly the whole
of the rest of the way to Bandar-i-Kamal Khan the valley on this side of
the river consists of a series of these bays varying from 6 to 12 miles
in length. Between Kala Madar-i-Padshah and Chahar Burjak there is
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practically no cultivation on either side of the river, yet many old forts,
large mausoleums and mud built minarets of considerable size are met
with and bear witness to the prosperity that once existed on the present
gravel strewn plain.
A little above Bandar-i-Kamal Khan, where the river suddenly bends
round to the north, the Helmand delta may be said to begin. Here
the valley on both sides of the river begins to gradually open out and the
cliffs to recede, and the country as far as Band-i-Seistan has all the
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characteristics of the remainder of the Seistan plains.
Cultivation is entirely dependent upon irrigation, but although a
Resources great number of new canals have been construct
ed of late years and a larger area of the valley
brought under cultivation, still, under a better form of government and
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consequent improved system of irrigation, there is no doubt that the
production might be enormously increased.