Barda
BARDEH or VARDEH―Lat. 36° 50ʹ 30ʺ; Long. 59° 41ʹ 30ʺ; Elev. 6,700ʹ.―(Napier.)
A village containing about 30 families of Tartars and
10 of Jalairs on the road from Meshed to Kalat-i-Nadiri, about 16 miles from
the latter place. Water in two springs, one slightly brackish, but not
sufficient for irrigation, the crops being entirely dependent on rainfall.
Supplies procurable. They live by grazing large flocks of sheep and goats; for
their fields produce, at all times, light crops. Shut in by high mountains,
except to the north-east, with an elevation of nearly 7,000 feet and a poor,
stony soil, it is surprising that any population should be able to subsist. But
the Kalat valleys on the north and the higher part of the range are said to
have a population of 8,000 or 10,000, who, in former days, taxed the efforts of
the most powerful rulers of Khorasan to subdue them.―(Napier; MacGregor;
C. E. Yate.)
Gazetteer of Persia. Volume I. ― Simla: Government of India Monotype
Press, 1910, pp. 75―76.
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