KACH GANDAVA, or KACHHI (Kach, See also:

• KEJ

Kej, Kiz)  , a See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

low-lying See also:

• FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat region in See also:

• BALUCHISTAN

Baluchistan separating the See also:

• BUGTI

Bugti hills from those of See also:

• KALAT

Kalat . It is driven, like a See also:

• WEDGE (O. Eng. wecg, a mass of metal, cognate with Dutch wig, wigge, Dan. vaegge, &c.; in Lith. the cognate form outside Teut. is found in wagis, a peg, spigot; there is no connexion with " weigh," " weight," which must be referred to the root wegh, to li

wedge, into the frontier See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain See also:

• SYSTEM

system and extends for 150 M. from See also:

• JACOBABAD

Jacobabad to See also:

• SIBI

Sibi, with nearly as See also:

• GREAT

great a breadth at its See also:

• BASE

base on the See also:

• SIND

Sind frontier . See also:

• AREA

Area, 5310 sq. m.; pop . Nor), 82,909 . The See also:

• MULA

Mula pass, which connects it with the Kalat See also:

• HIGHLANDS, THE

highlands, was once (when the See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Kandabel was the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of Gandava) a much trodden See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade See also:

• HIGHWAY

highway, and is still a practicable route though no longer a popular one . The See also:

• SOIL

soil is fertile wherever it can be irrigated by the floods brought down from the surrounding hills; but much of the central portion is sandy See also:

• WASTE (O. Fr. wast, guast, gast, gaste; Lat. vastus, vast, desolate)

waste . It is traversed by the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North-Western railway . The See also:

• CLIMATE

climate is unhealthy in summer, when pestilential hot winds are sometimes destructive to See also:

• LIFE

life . The See also:

• ANNUAL

annual rainfall averages only 3 in . Kachhi, though subject to the See also:

• KHAN (from the Turki, hence Persian and Arabic Khan)

khan of Kalat, is administered under the tribal system . There are no See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools, dispensaries or gaols . See Baluchistan See also:

• DISTRICT

District Gazetteer, vol. vi .

(Bombay, 1907) .