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"Business hugs the Kandahar Gate at Herat: Vegetable stands, bake ovens, and money-changers' booths have grouped themselves outside the portal from which starts the south road. They add an air of animation to this, the busiest of the five entrances. The earthwork on which the city wall stands is 50 feet high and five times as wide at the bottom. Aside from the main bastions, it has 150 or more jutting towers like that at the right."
—From "Afghanistan Makes Haste Slowly," December 1933, National Geographic magazine
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