{"book":"adl0957","page":248,"text":"197\nand is exceedingly deep. Its rose-coloured walls rise perpendic-\nularly from its azure surface. The white and rose margin of the\nsky-blue waters makes a marvellous panorama.\nThe waters of Band-i-Amir, together with those of Ab-i-Ali\nand Ab-i-Sarkol in the vicinity of Yakaolang, flow past the base\nof the palace of Barbar Shah and the ruins of Chihil Burj. They\nare joined during the length of their course by streams from the\neastern slope of Koh-i-Hissar, whence they flow to Dandan-\nShikan, and then veer towards the north, forming Balkh-Ab.\nA visit to Band-i-Amir reminds one of the lines of Moore :\nThere's bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream,\nAt the nightingale sings round it all the day long.\nShikari Pass to Pul-i-Khumri: The main road, after\nleaving the Bamian valley to the south, enters another gorge\ncalled Dar-i-Shikari. It runs along the Bamian river, which now\nflows to the north-west. The Shikari Pass commences at a\ndistance of 130 miles from Kabul, and is 259 miles from Mazari-\nSharif. This distance of 259 miles, from a geographical point\nof view, may be divided into three parts. The road for the first\nninety miles runs through a very difficult country, where it is\nhemmed in by huge precipitious mountains of different colours,\nrich with the remains of old forts perched on the rocks. The\nscenery throughout is most charming. At the termination of the\nPass lies Mekh-i-Zareen (the Golden Peg). Here for the con-\nvenience of travellers a modern rest-house has been erected.\nThe whole locality is famous for the variety of game. There is\ntrout in the river, and deer, pheasants and partridges along the\nmountain sides. Mekh-i-Zareen is 163 miles from Kabul. Here\nthe Saighan-Kahmard stream flows into the Bamian, and that is\nwhy the place is called Doab, the junction of two streams.","chars":1810,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00248.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/248","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/248","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."}}