678 Tour through parts of Baloochisthan, in QNo. 153. 



25th October.— Proceeded in a S. W. direction in the bed of a kaur, 

 or ravine, 6 kos between hills to Panjgoor, which I should say bears 

 directs S. W. from Washuk. No forage for horses is to be procured on 

 the road. 



The district of Panjgoor is bounded on the West by Tang and 

 Param ; on the South by Balogatar ; on the East by Grishk and 



Boundaries. Rakshan ; and on the North by a part of the range called 

 by Pottinger, the Mach, or date tree mountains, which is known on 

 the Panjgoor side as Sobz-Koh, or green mountains. 



The following are the villages of Panjgoor according to their size ; 



Villages, viz. Eesai, Bunistan, Tasp, Khudabadan, Gormkon, 



Washbood, Sordoo, Sori Kouron, Kalag, Damb and Eraf Chitkan and 



Duzanaph. The Kouri Rakhshanruns through the valley of Panjgoor 



Rakshan River. from East to West; but some of its water reach- 

 es the sea on account of the number of bunds thrown across it, and 

 canals drawn from it for the irrigation of the Dasht and Koochag, or 

 remote lands. The greater part of the cultivation depends on the rain, 

 which is owing to the ignorance, and partly to the apathy of the inha- 

 Capabilities of bitants, as water is to be found within 10 and 15 

 S0lh kulach, or fathoms of the surface. Were it not for 



this apathy of the cultivators, and short-sightedness of the government, 

 the cultivation might be doubled and trebled. The productions are 

 Productions. barley, wheat, beans, and peas, in the beginning of 

 summer; and rice, juwaree and dates in the beginning of autumn, 

 cultivated with the river water; wheat and red juwaree are produced 



Nature of Soil. in the high lands where there is rain. The soil of 

 Panjgoor is a stiff loam. 



In the village of Eesai are two karezes, one called Waramood and 

 the other Shakaruk, both commenced in the skirts of Sabz-Koh, and 

 Karez. terminated under the Rakhshan Kour. The gallery of the karez 

 is a very wide and high one, and seems a work of such incredible labour, 

 that the present degenerated men of Panjgoor believe it to be that of 

 giants or genii. Panjgoor is ruled by a deputy governor, ovjode 

 nishan, on the part of Meer Mehrab Khan, who is a slave, by name 

 Mulla Peer Mahommed, who collects only half the revenue ; the other 

 half belonging to the tribe of Gichkees, who according to popular belief, 

 became possessed of it in the following manner: — 



