BALUCHISTAN

3X

It is only quite recently that this water parting between
the Helmund and the great Mashkhel swamp (which,
besides the drainage contributed by the two important
rivers Mashkhel and Rakshin, receives: the periodic
‘orrents which flow from this water parting) has been
defined, and it is only lately that this desert has been

RIVER BASINS
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traversed and the caravan route established which now
connects Seistan with Quetta. From a point about forty
miles W.S.W. of Quetta the dividing line between Afghanistan
 and Baluchistan strikes northward, and traces an
uneven course to the western edge of the cultivation
surrounding the little station of New Chaman, which
represents the terminus of the Sind-Peshin railway in
the direction of Kandahar. New Chaman is not more