{"book":"adl0957","page":41,"text":"24\n\nSea to the Aral. In its lower reaches the bed of the river is\nextremely muddy, and it has been estimated that no less than\n16,000,000 tons of sedimentary matter constantly pass down the\nchannel to form a vast delta at its mouth.\n\nThe Kokcha.—This is a small turbulent tributary of the\nAmu and takes its source near Ramgul Pass, at the northern foot\nof the Hindu Kush. Taking a northerly direction, it flows past\nthe villages of Anjuman, Skarkar, Parwara, Ishpishmir: Garm,\nIskan, Jurm, Khairabad, and reaches Faizabad, the capital city\nof Badakhahn. Then turning north-west it passes below Rustaq,\nand making for the Oxus, flows into it to the north of Hazrat-i-\nImam. Little use is made of the waters of this river, for its bed\nis very deep and the current is extremely swift.\n\nThe Kunduz.—Another river of this category is the Kun-\nduz, now called Baghlan. Rising in the western Hindu Kush,\nnear Bamian, it flows through the Shikari Pass, where it is known\nby the name of Bamian Stream (Rud-i-Bamian). At Doab it\nreceives the waters of the Shighnan and Kamard. The joint\nstream then breaks out of the Hindu Kush gorge near Barfak,\nand makes for Doshi. After passing through a series of difficult\nnarrow valleys, and through steep and rocky banks, it reaches\nPul-i-Khumri, a comparatively open country. Leaving Baghlan\nto the west it flows straight to the north and, via Aliabad,\ngoes to Kunduz, whence, turning north-east, it flows into the\nOxus.\n\nThe Kunduz, throughout its length, in the plains as well as\nin the hilly districts, is utilized for irrigation purposes, so very\nlittle is left of it when it makes a junction with the Amu.\n\nOther tributaries of the Oxus, which take their rise on the\nnorthern slopes of the Hindu Kush, are: the Tashqurghan, the","chars":1764,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00041.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/41","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/41","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."}}