{"book":"adl1181","page":71,"text":"Preface\n\nThis booklet is intended to reveal to\nall visitors of Kabul its outstanding places.\nSome are noted for their beauty, others for\ntheir economic importance, and some as\ntestimony to the glorious past.\n\nThe reader will find also a brief his-\ntory of this ancient city, which we hope\nwill enable him to understand better what\ngreat effort has been and is being made\nby the Afghan people, in establishing the\nmost modern institutions in all fields of\nScience and Culture.\n\nBut the booklet itself is only a point-\ning finger: the real beauty cannot be\ndescribed by anybody, it must be seen\nto be believed.\n\nGeneral Directorate of Publication,\nSection IV,\nKabul\nAfghanistan\n\n- 1 -","chars":682,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl1181/00071.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":77,"title":"Khvush āmadīd bih Kābul = : Welcome to Kabul خوش آمديد به کابل","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl1181/71","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl1181/canvas/71","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."}}