"دليل بلاد فارس، المجلد I ويشمل محافظات أستراباد، شاهرود-بوستان، خراسان، وسيستان" [ظ‎‎١‎٨‎٨] (٧٢٢/٣٨١)

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NAUDIH*— Lat. 37° 2' O'', Long. 55° 17' 30" ; Elev. 300' (Napier).
A large village in the province of Astarabad, 50 miles east-north-east from
the town of Astarabad. It is composed of three detached hamlets, comprising-
in all 200 houses. The level ground in the valley is cleared and’closely* cul
tivated, but dense forest encircles the clearing, meeting above and below it"
and forming a most effectual barrier, behind which the villagers rest secure
from any attack by their neighbours in the plain. They are fine, active
men, well-armed, and good foresters. Their houses are built of cane
plaited into a timber frame, open in front and without fireplace. The
open front is closed at night by a curtain of split canework. No'better
shelter is, they say, necessary; for the winter is short and mild.
Snow falls, but lies for at most twenty-tour hours. The summer is hot and
unhealthy, malarious fever being very prevalent. The villao- e is one of
sixty-three villages of the Kuhsar-Findarisk buluk, all lying on the flank of
the Yamut Turkuman country. There are fifteen villages in the valley all
near enough to support each other, and communicate either by gun-shot or
signal-fires. They can collect in from three to four hours 1,000 men all
armed with serviceable guns, and to a certain extent organised; for they are
paid a sum sufficient to enable them to keep up their equipments and supply
of ammunition, and are accustomed to work together in parties of thirty to
forty as guards, escorts, &e. Knowing every path in the forest, and having-
great confidence in their own power to meet any enemv on their own ground
they would be formidable, even to a disciplined force".
. Naudih grows rice and wheat andfa little cotton. Of the first, We quan
tities are exported to Khurasan. The village pays a revenue of 200 kharwars
of rice, the province being in favourable years from six to eio-ht times that
amount. Wheat is more cultivated than formerly, and wantffi good roads
and security alone prevent the increase of the production of cotton The
place is cut up by rivulets and dykes, utilised by the local population for
irrigating their neefields. The whole country on each side is well
watered and wooded, and is covered with pasturage. Petrusevitch draws
attention to the pass and direct route from Naudih through Ma^as to
Mammal. The road, passing up the Khurmali defile on a very gentledope,
emerges on tne Zardawa plain, beyond which is Magas.—( Napier.)
NAUDIH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev '
In the whole range of the Alburz, from the Herat to the Tihran river, there
is no point at which the chain could be so readily crossed, by either road or
railroad, as on the line of the Naudih valley. Up to the village of Tulbm
1 S is? Pe ?-r°i U f an f the ^ adients eas D Thence a low, easy pass
leads t° the N audih plateau, from whence either Jajarm or Maiumai might
be reached without crossing any difficult country. There is no other hue
affording anything ike equal facilities. Coal has already been found
m the mountains to the west. J
Water, fuel, and forage are here abundant, and some supplies.—(iUto,
MacCxr eg or, Petrusevitch, Napier) 11 1
NAUDIH-Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
JwpS 6 1 f ^ Kakh subdivision of the Tabas district of Khurasan. It
inlVf V " - e G l n t bad y alle W and about 25 miles from Kakh, on the
oad to Pakistan . It has about 100 houses, and an abundant water-supply
from a hill spring.— (Bellew.) B EEJ
# “ The New Village.”