ABC 046 — Murghab River near Darband-e Kilrekhta

• Owen, Charles (1884-86): Transcript of diary and letters, p. 125: “12 Dec. [1884] […] It was about 11.15 am when we reached the Marghab river, a beautiful stream, rapid running and bright blue. The ford had been staked out and was about 3 feet in depth. We heard the salute fired for General Lumsden as we entered the valley. […] We encamped just on the other side of the stream. […]”
• [Parliamentary Blue Papers, May 1885]: Central Asia. No. 2 (1885), p. 130: Paper read by M. Lessar at a Meeting of the Russian Geographical Society: “The Murghab River takes its rise on the northern slope of the Sefid-Kuh, and reaches the plain in the neighbourhood of Bala Murghab. The banks of the river consists mostly of mounds which in some places border the river itself. […] The banks of the Murghab afford greater advantages for settlement than those of the Hari-Rud, and the occupation of only three points along its course is attributable to marauding Turkoman raids. […]”
• Lumsden, P. (1885): Countries and Tribes bordering on the Koh-i-Baba Range, p. 565: “The Murghab is a beautiful river, flowing in deep beds of sand and alluvial deposit, with an average width of 60 to 80 yards, and only fordable, even in winter, in a few places.”
• Adamec, L.W. (1975): Herat and north-western Afghanistan, pp. 87-88: Darband-i-Kilrekhta; p. 272: Kilrekhta; p. 312: Murghab, “[…] it then turns northwest, and breaks through the Band-i-Turkestan by the Darband-i-Kilrekhta and Darband-i-Jaokar. […]”

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