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Title: The universal geography : the earth and its inhabitants
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: London : J.S. Virtue & Co., Ltd.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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ain of the Kara-dagh, or Black Mountains, which axe continuedwestwards by the Hazar Masjid, or Thousand Mosques. The highest peak,which gives its name to this range, is broken into a multitude of pointed eminences,compared, by the fervid imagination of the pilgrims from Meshed to giganticminarets. North-west of Kelat-i-Nadir the main range throws off other elevated spurs,enclosing the rich and productive basin of Dereghez, or the Tamarind Valley,whose exuberant vegetation rivals that of the Caspian seaboard in the provinces ofGrhilan and Mazanderan. Askhabad, standing at the foot of these advanced hills,forms the present terminus of the railway constructed by the Russians during thelate Turkoman war, which is doubtless destined in the near future to be continuedround the foot of the hills to Afghanistan. The Russian engineers have alsoprojected a line through one of the Dereghez valleys, and across the main rangesouth-eastwards to Meshed. A short distance beyond the Garm-ab Pass, both
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KELAT-I-NADIE-AEQHAVAN-SHAH GORGE. THE KHOEASSAN HIGHLANDS. 81 slopes of tlie water-parting are included within tlie new Russian frontier, wHclihere descends into the valley of the Samhar, across its tributary, the Chambir, andalong the parting-line between the Sambar and Atrek basins, to the confluenceof these rivers. In this region the hills fall gradually towards the Caspian, sothat the Iranian plateau is easily reached by travellers following the numerousvalleys between the divergent mountain ranges. The Atrek, chief affluent of the Caspian on its Asiatic side, gives its nameto the whole basin comprised between the Kopet-dagh and Iranian tableland. Themain stream, which has -a total length of not less than 300 miles, reaches anelevated plain near Kuchan (4,500 feet), which forms the water-parting between theCaspian and Heri-rud declivities. Here we have a striking illustration of the factthat the dividing lines of water systems do not always coincide with the crestsof main ranges.

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