Bolan Pass
a remarkable and dangerous defile in western Asia, traversing the province of Sarawan, in the N. E. corner of Baluchistan. The pass gradually ascends from the plain a length of 55 miles, rising in its progress at the rate of 90 feet every mile, till it reaches the summit, which is 5,793 feet above the BOLEYN level of the sea. It is in many places walled in by stupendous rocks, where a few hundred resolute men might hold the passage against an army. The pass was formerly, before its occupancy by the British in 1877, infested by bands of lawless Baluchees.