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Mulberry trees are grown in great numbers, and about 75 mans, of 13 lbs,
each, of silk cocoon are produced yearly. This village furnishes seven
r soldiers to the Turbat-i-Haidan regiment.— (Gill, Stewart.)
KHtJSH-I-AILAK—L at. 36° 54' 0", Long. 55° 30' 0"; Elev. 10,000'
(Napier ).
A fine hill in the Jajarm district of Khurasan, attaining an altitude of
10,000 feet. The nomad Ailak tribe of Turks make it their summer quar
ters.— (MacGregor.)
KHTJSHK— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village of Khurasan in the Alghur subdivision of the Kafn district,
situated 97 miles from Birjand, on the road to Sistan by Nih. It has
water and some supplies.— (MacGregor.)
KHTJSHKHANA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A valley or plateau to the north of Shirwan in Kurdish Khurasan, con
taining 30 villages, the largest being Kairahat. It has a population of
3,000 or 4,000 souls, and furnished 300 well-mounted horse and 100 or
200 riflemen to the Persian Government. An affluent of the Atrak
flows through this valley, which is closed at its head by the precipitous
Guiliul-Dagh, over which there are but few passes. There is, however,
a defile called Deveh Boyani leading to Ak Tapa and Karakhan.— (Fe-
trusevitch, Napier, Taylor, Thomson.)
KHTJSH-KHtlSH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A large watermill, 13 miles north-east of Tun, in Khurasan.— (MacGregor.)
KHtJSHMAlSrZIL— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A hill village in Khurasan, 12-| miles south-east of Bajistan.— (Rozario.)
KHtfSH BTJD, or KHTJSH RtfDAK— Lat. , Long. ;
Elev. , .
A tributary of the Harud river in Afghanistan, crossed by the road from
Lash Juvain to Birjand. Its water is said to be bitter.— -(Rozario.)
KHtTSHRUSHlR— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A small village in Khurasan on the road from Mashhad to Shahrud be
tween Zurabad and Rachaman.— (Stewart.)
KHTJSIH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A river of Khurasan, the basin of which to the north is bounded by the
chain which passes between Birjand and Tun. It contains but little
water, and the little there is is completely absorbed for the irrigation of
the surrounding fields ; its dry bed, however, crosses the whole length of
the desert of Lut.— (Kkanikoff.)
KHIJSRI— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in the Daraghaz district of Khurasan, inhabited by Sunni
Muhammadans.— (Stewart.)
KHtJSRG GIRD, or KHASRtJ-GIRD —Lat. 36° 13' SO'', Long. 57° 30'
40"; Elev. ' (Napier).
A village in Khurasan, 5 miles west of Sabzawar. There is here a
remarkable solitary round tower, called the minar of Khusru Gird.
It is 98 feet high and 26 feet in circumference at the top, built of baked
brick, with a flight of interior steps leading to the summit only wide
enough to admit one man. Round its exterior the bricks are arranged at
intervals so as to form a Cufic inscription, which terminates with the
words: a This was constructed in the year 505 of the Hijra. It is