BALUCHISTAN

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fortress and protection. Such is the result of British
interference with frontier misgovernment for less than
the space of one quarter of a century.
Leaving Quetta and turning to the southern districts

Miles

Railway.
FiG. 14.—The Plain of Quetta.

of Baluchistan (which may be dealt with in three divisions,
fe. the hill state of Kalat, the desert of Kharan, and the
sea bordering the district of Makran), we at once en-Counter
 a topographical system analogous to that which