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topography. In collecting data for such reference to the ethnography,
archaeology, and ancient history of the Baluch borderland as are herein
to be found, the researches of members of the Survey parties employed
in mapping the country were directed to points of interest indicated by
the very few ancient and modern writers who have dealt with Baluchistan.
 Bellew is perhaps the principal authority, although his attention
was directed chiefly to the neighbouring state of Afghanistan. Pottinger
was one of the first to differentiate between the many Baluch tribes in
modern times, and to give some shape to the ethnographical status of
the country. There are ancient references to Baluchistan to be found
in the work of Herodotus, who enumerates the tribes of the great satrapies
 of the Persian Empire. Arrian’s history of the Greek retreat from
India has also added much to our knowledge of ancient geography of
Makrdn. G. P. Tate's pamphlet, “ Kalit,” the Census reports of the
Indian Government, and Thornton’s * Life of Sandeman ” may also be
studied with advantage. The best maps are of course the sheets of the
Indian Survey, which include the topography of the whole country—
some of it on a fairly large scale.” But they are difficult to get in
England.