{"book":"adl0957","page":267,"text":"214\n\nuntil it reaches Kala-i-Jadid (the New Fort), facing New\nChaman, a terminus of the North-Western Railway. Here\npassports and luggage are examined.\n\nRecently a new road was completed between Kandahar\nand Kala-i-Jadid. This road is broad and well-laid out, and\nthe distance can now be easily covered within two hours by car.\n\n(7) Kandahar to Herat (distance 407 miles): Herat the\nwestern most province of Afghanistan, is reached from Kandahar\nby way of Grishk, Farah and Sabzawar (or Sheen Dand). The\nroad for the most part runs over a level but sandy plain; water\nis generally scarce.\n\n(1) Kandahar to Grishk (75 miles): The road is generally\nlevel. Grishk lies at the distance of a mile on the right bank of\nthe Helmund. The Helmund or Etamandros of the classical\nwriters is the largest inland river of Afganistan. Numerous\nruined cities and forts are to be a seen all along the banks of the\nriver, Bust and Lashkargah being the most important of these.\nSix miles from Kandahar the river Arghandab is crossed. Mid-\nway between Grishk and Kandahar, a few miles north of the\npresent road, lies the historic plain of Maiwand. There are some\ncharming gardens and orchards along the banks of the Helmund.\nVillages are numerous and every one is a thriving centre. The\npasturage, too, is rich and abundant, and the agricultural\ncapacity of the Zamindawar lands (70 miles north of Grishk\nalong the Helmund) is well-known.\n\nThe Helmund, like most of the rivers of Afghanistan, has\na seasonal flow. During early spring it rises in flood with the\nmelting of the snow, and often attains a breadth of more than\na mile. Recently the Afghan Government, with a view to","chars":1657,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00267.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/267","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/267","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."}}