"خريطة بلاد فارس، مع مذكرة وفهرس." [و‎‎٦] (٥٧/١٦)

MEMORANDUM ON THE NEW MAP OF PERSIA.
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that encountered in Persia itself. I may instance as illustrating
the various pronunciations of the same vowel, the word panj, puvj,
or penj, i. e. five, which in the different forms Kila Bar Pauja,
Panjgur, Punjab, and Penjdeh, is familiar to English readers. The
system employed in Hunter’s Gazetteer of India, and in India generally,
I have not, for the above-mentioned reasons, been able unreservedly to
adopt. It frequently violates the primary canon of such an approxima
tion to the local sound as a native, if he heard the word in an English
man’s mouth, might he expected to understand.
It will be observed that in addition to Persia this map includes a
large portion of the Russian dominions in Central Asia, the greater
part of Afghanistan, and the whole of Beluchistan. The geographical
configuration of Persia, considered in relation to a handy and portable
sheet, would of itself have suggested such an extension of plan; hut
the reasons for which I have adopted it are political rather than
ornamental or convenient. Persia is so intimately hound up with its
neighbours on the north-east and east, and its future will so largely
he determined hy considerations in which their geography and topo
graphy must play an important part, that the map would have been
shorn of much of its value had it omitted to include them. Russian
authorities have been used for the Russian dominions ; Indian autho
rities for the Indian frontier-regions and the countries immediately
beyond.
I append a twofold list, (1) of the maps that have been directly
used in the compilation of this work; (2) of the maps that have not
required to be so used, inasmuch as their contents have already been
incorporated in the members of class 1, but that deserve to figure in
a catalogue of modern maps of Persia. I have subdivided the former
or more important class, firstly into the political and geographical
units of Persia, Afghanistan, and Beluchistan; and secondly, according
to the character and extent of the area or itinerary displayed, into
> General maps, Divisional maps, and District or Route maps. This is
not an unfamiliar classification, and appears to cover the whole ground.