1 2 Jour. As, Soc.
2 Beng. 1842, p. 54,
3 Grif. Bar. and
4 Ther. Obs. in
5 Afg.
6 7 E.L.C. Ms. Doc,
7 Christie, in App.
8 to Pott, 406.
9 ELC, Ms. Doe,
10 Masson, Bal. Afg.
11 Panj. i. 321.
12 1 Hough, 39.
13 Koff
14 on
15 156 ROD—ROG.
16 allusion to its fertility, pleasant aspect, and abundant irrigation.
17 It extends for about eighteen miles in length, in a direction
18 nearly from north-east to south-west, between lat. 29° 22’'—29”
19 36’, long. 66° 56’—67° 8’. Lying on the route between Beebee
20 Nanee, having an elevation of 1,695 feet,? and Kelat, having an
21 elevation of 6,000,° it can scarcely be less than 2,000 feet high,
22 and is probably much more, as the inhabitants emigrate in winter
23 with their flocks and herds to the low warm tract of Cutch
24 Gundava. Rod Bahar is, throughout its whole length, supplied
25 with water from the stream, which, flowing down the bottom of
26 the valley, joins the Bolan river at Beebee Nanee. The soil
27 is cultivated in patches with rice, wheat, millet, and esculent
28 vegetables ; orchards of mulberries, peaches, and apricots, yield
29 abundance of fine fruit; and the inclosing mountains pasture
30 numerous herds of goats and flocks of sheep. The annual
31 migration of the inhabitants and their live stock takes place in
32 November, and they previously bury their grain so artfully as to
33 escape discovery until their return in the succeeding March.
34 The ground produces two crops, of which wheat and millet are
35 sown in August, and reaped in the beginning of April; rice is
36 sown in the middle of May, and reaped in the middle of Sep-
37 tember. The route from Beebee Nanee to Kelat, passing through
38 the valley, admits the passage of horses and beasts of burthen,
39 but much labour and skill would be required to render it practi-
40 cable for wheel-carriages.
41 RODBAR, near the south-eastern border of Seistan, a village
42 situate on the left bank of the Helmund, which, though four
43 hundred yards wide, rapid, and in general deep, is fordable near
44 this place. It is held by the Towkee tribe of Belooches. Lat.
45 30° 30’, long. 62° 33’:
46 ROGALIN, in Sinde, a village close to the north-west fron-
47 tier, on the route from Shikarpoor to Gundava, and twenty-five
48 miles north-west of the former town. Lat. 28° 14’, long.
49 68° 26’.
50 ROGANI, in Beloochistan, a pass south of, and collateral
51 with, the Kojuck Pass. It proceeds along the course of the Lora
52 river, and through it lies the principal line of communication
53 between the valley of Pisheen and Shorawuk, to the west of it.
54 Lat. 30° 30’, long. 66° 20’.
55 ROGHAN,! in Sinde, a village near the frontier of Cutch