MURGHAB VALLEY RAILWAY
LIST OF STATIONS FROM MERV TO KUSHKINSKI POST
WITH DISTANCES FROM KRASNOVODSK AND MERV
| Station. | Height above Caspian Sea. | Distance from Merv. | Distance from Krasnovodsk. |
| Sagenes. | Versts. | Versts. | |
| Merv | 118.01 | — | 842 |
| Talkhatan Baba | 127.06 | 37 | 879 |
| Yulatan | 134.16 | 56 | 898 |
| Sultan-i-Band | 139.55 | 76 | 918 |
| Imam Baba | 148.60 | 120 | 962 |
| Sari Yazi | 155.57 | 157 | 999 |
| Tash Kepri | 164.00 | 197 | 1039 |
| Kala-i-Mor | 202.07 | 244 | 1086 |
| Kushkinski Post | 303.04 | 293 | 1135 |
APPENDIX III
Kishlak, a village of sedentary Turcomans, as opposed to Aoul, the nomad village.
Mekteb, the lower-class Mussulman elementary school.
Medresse, university of a theological order.
Arik, canal or channel diverted from river for irrigation purposes.
TABLE OF MEASUREMENTS
| 1 sagene | = 7 ft. |
| 1 dessiatine (= 2400 sq. sagenes) | = 432 sq. roods (2.70 acres) |
| 1 square sagene | = 49 sq. ft. |
| 1 arshine | = .77 yard (2.33 ft.) |
| 1 vershok | = 1.75 in. |
A dessiatine (land measure) is a parallelogram having a length of 80 sagenes and a breadth of 30 sagenes, or it may be 40 by 60 sagenes, therefore the dessiatine is 2400 square sagenes, or 21,600 square arshines.