{"book":"adl0957","page":127,"text":"94\n\nA.D.) was so charmed with its beauty that he would not quit\nthe place even after a stay of two years. The courtiers,\nhome-sick as they were, approached Rodaki, the poet-laureate,\nif he would do something to make the King return home.\nWhereupon the poet composed a few simple but touching verses,\nand when he recited them to the King, the effect was marvellous.\nIt is said that he immediately left on horse-back for Bokhara\nwithout even waiting to put on his boots.\n\nSabzwar or Sheendand, the old historic Isfazar another\nfertile district, lies to the south on the Herat-Kabul road.\n\nThe soil of Herat is varied in its quality and character.\nSome districts are so fertile that grain there yields one hundred\nand rice two hundred-fold.\n\nThe produce of Herat consists of fruits in great variety\nand most kinds of grain. It also produces some silk, saffron,\nlarge quantities of asafoetida, manna, tobacco, pistachio, nuts\nand gums.\n\nHerat possesses a pleasant and beautiful climate. Winters\nare not extremely cold, and summers would be hot but for the\nperiodical wind from the west which generally lasts for 120\ndays.\n\nThe mineral wealth of the province is said to be great.\nThere are many signs of oil-bearing areas. Important oil fields\nare located at a place called Tirpul, west of the city on Herat-\nMeshed road. Salt is found in various parts in the shape of a\nthick effervescence. The province is also rich in iron and coal.\n\nHerat is celebrated for the beauty and durability of its\ncarpets. It is also noted for its woollen cloth (called Kurk) and\nsilken fabrics called Kanavez.","chars":1585,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00127.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/127","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/127","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0957/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0957_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}