BALUCHISTAN. is
almost entirely inhabited by Marn's,
plunderers, and
bounded on
is
Bugti's,
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and other
tribes of Baliich
the north by the Province of Sewestdn
(Seistan). South of these ranges lies the desert country, which touches the Sind frontier in 28° 27' N. lat.
The
rivers of Baluchistan are the Bolan,
Miila in the north
Rodbat, Lora, Shirinab, and
the Habb, Sinamani, Marwar, Nari, Urnach, and
and Gashastan in and the Dasht, Rakshan, Bhado, Gwargo, Nihing, and Mashkhid in the west. The two principal water-courses which drain the Kohistdn portion of Baluchistdn east of Khelat are the rivers Bolan and Mula, the former rising about 60 miles north-east of Khelat, the Purali in the east; the Shadi, Mokula, Bhasul, Ghish,
the
south
Anjira
latter at
of that
city.
(lat.
They both discharge themselves
the former at Dadar, at
28° 19' N., long. 66° 29'
lat.
Kotra near Gandava,
at all seasons a plentiful
which
is
entirely used
They
plains.
e.),
about 45 miles south
into the plains of Kacchi,
29° 28' 51" n., long. 67° 26' lat.
e.,
28° 33' 47" N., long. 67° 26'
and the latter There is E.
supply of clear running water in these streams, for irrigation purposes on issuing into the
up
are subject to dangerous floods from sudden storms in
The two easiest from Central Asia into India take their names from these streams. {See Bolan and Mula.) South of the Mula, the Gaj river issues into the plains, and its waters are also absorbed in cultivation. The Nari issues into the plains near Kajjak, on the north-west of Kachh-Gandava, in lat. 29° 36' N., and long. 68° 2' E. ; ordinarily its water is utilized entirely for cultivation in its course through the Province of Sibi ; but at periods of heavy rains in the mountains it is liable the neighbouring mountains during the rainy season.
and
safest passes
to burst
its
banks, and then
it
inundates immense tracts in the Kachhi
desert to the south.
West of Khelat,
mountain ranges and are of the same nature as those to the eastward, but the ranges are much narrower, more defined, and of a lower altitude. The valleys between them vary from 5 to 15 miles in as far as about 65° 30' e. long., the
have much the same
breadth
strike,
they are quite devoid of trees.
The
water-courses generally
from north to south, and in some instances, during heavy rains, their waters reach the Arabian Sea; but as a general rule they are absorbed long before they reach the coast, partly in cultivation, but principally by the sandy arid nature of the soil and excessive dryness of the atmosphere, due probably to the proximity of the great desert on the north-west of Khardn, which extends to the confines of Persia. This desert is quite impassable in follow the direction of the
summer owing
hills,
to the sand-storms,
utterly to destroy
animal
when the wind
is
so scorching as
life.
Climate, Productions, etc
.
— The
climate of Baluchistan
is
various in the different Provinces, and runs to extremes.
extremely
The
cold
