{"book":"adl1181","page":41,"text":"Standing on the top of the mountains, one has a splendid view of the pleasant valleys with the surrounding mountain ranges in the background, through the middle of which the Kabul River winds its way. The city of Kabul is built on both sides of this river, and is about 8 miles in circumferen-ce. The city in the course of its growth has extended towards the north of the ri-ver and has reached Siasang Kotal-e Yaklinga, Posteen-Dozha, the cement fac-tory and the cantonment on the east, Pul-i Sokhta on the west, on the North upto Shaher-e-Aara, Deh-Kupak, Bibi-Mehro, Khwaja Rawash, the military hospital and Yakatoot, and on the South as Sho-hadai-Swaliheen and Qilai-Hashmat Khan.\n\nPlaces to be visited in the neighbourhood of Kabul:\nA. The city of Kabul has many places worth seeing and and many beautiful gardens, most of which belong to government ins-titutions. Public places worth a visit are:\nI. Bagh-e-Babor Shah (the garden of Babor), which lies at a distance of two miles from the city in the south-west\n\n- 31 -","chars":1024,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1181/00041.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":77,"title":"Khvush āmadīd bih Kābul = : Welcome to Kabul خوش آمديد به کابل","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1181/41","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1181/canvas/41","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl1181/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl1181_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."}}