{"book":"adl0957","page":275,"text":"222\n\nO sky ! the Moon shall light thee by and by.\nBokhara is the mead, the cypress he ;\nReceive at last, O Mead, the cypress tree.\n\nFrom Herat a road leads to the Iranian border. This road running due west leads via Ghorian (Zindajan or Phooshanj of old) to Islam Qala (old name: Kafir Qala), facing Yusufabad and Karez, Iranian border posts. The distance between Herat and the Persian border is a little less than 100 miles.\n\nKabul to Gardez: (80 miles) The road via Charasia, Mohammad-Agha and Hissarak (all in the Lohgar valley) leads to the Altamur Pass. There is a steep ascent, and the road skirts difficult hills, often blocked with snow during winter months. After crossing the Pass there is a steady descent till Gardez is reached.\n\nGardez is an important strategical town of Southern Afghanistan and guards the roads from Urgun, Khost, Ghazni and Lohgar. It is the provincial capital. From here roads radiate in different directions; one goes to Khost, another leads to Ghazni, a third to Urgun, a fourth to Chamkani, and a fifth to Jaji country bordering the Kurram valley.","chars":1084,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00275.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/275","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/275","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."}}