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water is in three wells, and the cultivation depends on the rain. This 

 stage is out of the Pass. Narmookh is in a plain which is divided 

 from the plain of Takht by a projecting range of hills. From Nar- 

 mookh, the next stage is Takht, fourteen miles, inhabited only 

 in the summer months by wandering shepherds. If rain falls, water 

 will be found at Takht ; the next stage is Johan, fifteen miles, a fort 

 containing 30 houses of Johanees under Katar Dad, the son of Sahab 

 Khan Johanee. The water here is in a running stream. 



Rice and wheat are cultivated to some extent, and there are a few 

 gardens. The next stage is Kishan, twelve miles, containing 10 houses 

 under Jangee Kishanee. 



The water is in a running stream ; rice and wheat are cultivated to 

 some extent, and there are a few gardens and cultivation. 



Kalat is thence 15 miles. 



This road is passable to cavalry and camels, but by no means to 

 guns. Snow does not fall in the Pass, its boundary being Narmookh, 

 (Narmool of maps.) The inhabitants begin to emigrate to Catchee 

 (Cutch Gundava,) by the middle of September, some on account of the 

 cold, others on account of the scarcity of grass for their flocks, and the 

 remaining cannot stay behind, as they would be too weak to withstand 

 the plundering attacks of the Dhumad Kakads. 



The heaviest falls of snow in Kalat do not cover the ground knee- 

 deep, and it never remains on the ground for more than seven days. 

 Snow begins to fall in the beginning of December, and lasts to the 

 end of February. 



When the inhabitants of Rodbar emigrate to Cutchee, they first 

 bury their grain, and cover it very artfully, so as to escape observation. 

 The inhabitants return to Rod-Bahar by the end of March. Wheat is 

 sown in the end of August, and reaped in the beginning of April. 

 Rice or the rubbee crop is sown in the middle of May, and reaped in the 

 middle of September. 



There is grazing ground on the mountains for flocks during March, 

 April and May, and forage for horses might be procured ; during May 

 the wheat stalks could be given to horses, and as long as it lasted. 



No. 3. 



Road from Manziljah at the entrance of the Bolan Pass to Kalat 

 Manziljah in the Dasht Khurd, or small plain, called Bedoulat ; there are 



