"دليل بلاد فارس، المجلد I ويشمل محافظات أستراباد، شاهرود-بوستان، خراسان، وسيستان" [ظ‎‎١‎٦‎٣] (٧٢٢/٣٣١)

KURTABAD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. \
A little walled village of Shahrud-Biistan, 6 miles east of Shahrdd, on the
road to Maiumai. It has heaps of ruins about it and a patch of green
fields.— {liozario. )
KUBlT— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 16 miles from Tabas, on the road to Birjand. It
has water and some supplies. [MacGregor.)
KURJU— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
Formerly an Akhal Tnrkuman fort, 8 miles south-east of Yangi Kala.—
[MacGregor.)
KURKALIK—Lat. , Long. ; .Elev.
A defile through which the Turkumans pass on raids in the Persian ter
ritory from the Akhal country.— [Thomson.)
KURTARtJ— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A stream rising in Shahkuh range south of Astarabad, and flowing in a north
westerly direction near Radkan.— [MacGregor.)
KTJRTJN—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 12| miles from Kuchan, on the road to Annan in
the Atak. It has 40 houses.— [Napier.)
KURUZDIH—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
Formerly a halting-place halfway between Sharifabad and Rubat-i-Gaz in
Khurasan.— [Stewart.)
KTJSF*— Lat. 32° 47' 30", Long. 58° 48' 0"; Elev. ' [St. John).
A town in Khurasan, situated on the stream of the same name, 23 miles
from Birjand, on the road to Karman. It is a flourishing place; and
supplies are procurable in lai'ge quantities. The Kusf river supplies a
large quantity of water for irrigation, which, though brackish, is quite fit
for this purpose. The town has a karez of good water, which is drawn
from the river higher up.— [Stewart.)
KtJSF*—L at. , Long. ; Elev.
A river in Khurasan, having its rise in the mountains between Birjand
and Tun, and losing itself in the desert of Lut. This river has little water,
and the little it has is completely absorbed by the field irrigation of the
district; but its dry bed traverses the entire length of the desert. Water
has never been seen in this bed, in the memory of man. Even in the
most rainy seasons, the current hardly ever goes beyond the limit of
the inhabited portion of the country ; and yet this channel is too deeply
cut in the desert soil to allow of its origin being attributed to some meteoro
logical accident: as, for instance, the passage of a storm torrent. The bed
evidently owes its origin to the gradual and continued action of flowing
water : which leads to the belief that here, as in the north of Central Asia,
the level of rivers and streams has long ago considerably sunk, and that
in consequence the total quantity of sweet water has diminished in this
part of the old world and the desert has enlarged its limits.— [Kha-
nikoff.)
KtJSH DURIH—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village of Khurasan, 23 miles from Furk in the Turshfz district by a
road to Turbat-i-Haidari. It has a fort in fair repair, about 80 inhabitants,
and many mulberry trees. About 3 cwt. of silk cocoons are yearly produced.
— [Stewart.)
* or “ Khusf.”