"الطرق في بلاد فارس. القسم III" [و‎‎٨‎٠] (٧٣٩/١٦٤)

14
No. 70— conid.
Giiurian to Karman, via Yazdan, tyc.
No.
of
stage.
Names of stages.
Bubj Gulwar-
da.
3,030'.
D istances
in miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
16
AWA2
4,090'.
Naoghab
4,950'.
97
16
21
113
134
R bmaeks,
neighbourhood. Number of Sabzawari Maldars
here with their flocks^
For about H miles the road passes through the
same low, undulating hills and then goes straight
way across hard dasht till Burj-Grulwarda
(2,850 feet) is reached. Plenty of Saxaul bushes
are met along the road. An old stone-tower at
Burj-Gulwarda on a slight eminence ; round foot
of hillock are three wells with a fair supply of
good water, 3 feet below the surface.
Road passes for first 9 miles up gravelly daman,
west by south. The track here was badly mark
ed. At 9 miles it enters the Ahingaran range of
hills which has hitherto blocked the view on right
front, and for about miles goes up stony
nala bottom, when it crosses low and open kotal
(4,320 feet). The rise from entrance to hills to
the kotal is 300 feet. After leaving kotal, road
passes over slightly undulating, descending ground
among hills until a sort of outer kotal is reached,
when road drops rather suddenly into the Awaz
plain. This is the only steepish part of road, and
it would have to be made a little, in order to take
guns over. The drop is however not more than
100 feet.
Awaz village consists of an old ruined fort with
a good cluster of domed houses. Nice karez of
water here, Cf. Route No. Ill, stage 9.
From Awaz two roads to Birjand, one via Turk
and the other via Gask and Eahnish ; the latter
is described.
Road runs across open plain due west. After
about a mile a broad track, leading southwards
from the neighbouring village of Gazik, is crossed
and also flat dry bed of stream, which drains away
through the hills to the south-east and gets lost
in the Dasht-i-Na-Umed.
Road then passes up valley in among low undulat
ing hillocks. At 6 miles an old tiaoz is reached
(no water), where a road branches to left, leading
to Taughan and Furk. Naoghab road goes on
pretty well due west and keeping more or less in
the same valley to ]0| miles, where it leaves the
low hills and takes to open "dasht w in the valley.