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Town in Surat District, Bombay Presidency See Bulsar. Baltistdn (more generally called Iskardoh, from the name of its chief town). One of the administrative divisions of Kashmir, comprising the north and north-eastern portions of that State. Baltistan lies between the governorship of Gilgit on the west and Ladakh on the east See also Iskardoh. Balu^. Trading village in Bhagalpur District, Bengal. Lat. 26° 24' 40" N., long. 87° 3' i" E. Recent changes in the course of the Kusi have brought that river within 2 miles of Balud.. Principal trade oilBalsdr.

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seeds, collected from different parts of the District,

and from Nepal

and

Tirhut, to be exported by the Kusi to Calcutta. Chief imports and piece-goods, which are sold to merchants from Nepdl. Baluchistan. A tract of country, whose coast is continuous with the north-western seaboard of the Indian Peninsula; bounded on the north by Afghanistan, on the east by Sind, on the south by the Arabian Sea, and on the west by Persia. Although Baluchistan lies beyond the limits of British India, some account of it may be useful to those who consult this work. It would be unsuitable, however, that any appearsalt

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ance of official authority should attach to this account of a foreign State, which has been confined to materials already published. With

W. H. Green

and of Messrs. on Baluchistan in the ninth Britannica has been condensed in the

the permission of General Sir

A.

&

(the author),

C. Black (the publishers), the article

edition of the Eticj clopcedia

following notice, as being the ablest concise account of the country

which has yet been made available to the public. kindly revised and

made

General Green

additions to this article for the

first

edition

of the Imperial Gazetteer of India; and later information has been added in the present edition.

The frontier between Persia and Baluchistan, drawn by an English commission, sent out in 1870, under Sir F. Goldsmid, runs from Gwadar Bay (about 61° it

to

36' e. long.) northwards to

lat.

26° 15' N.,

when

and

east,

turns eastward to the Nihing river, following which, north its

sources,

it

passes on to about 63°

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2

e. long.,

afterwards resuming

a northerly direction to Jalk. As thus determined, Baluchistan has an area of about 160,500 square miles. It extends from lat. 24° 50' to 30° 20' N., and from long. 60° 40' to 69° 45' e. its extreme length from east to west being about

The

550

miles,

outline of the sea-coast

nearly due east and west, a

is

little

and

its

in general

north of

breadth about 370. remarkably regular, running

lat.

24° 46', from

the extreme south-west promontory of Sind, to river Dasht.

and has

in

It is for the

some

Cape

Cape Monze,

Juni, near the

most part craggy, but not remarkably elevated, low sandy shore,

places, for a considerable distance, a

though almost ever)'where the surface becomes much higher inland. The principal headlands, proceeding from east to west, are Cape Monze