"الطرق في بلاد فارس. القسم III" [ظ‎‎١‎١‎٢] (٧٣٩/٢٢٩)

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No. 94— contd.
K alat -1- N adiri to B ajgirha (P ersian), MuhawMatahaA.
No.
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etage.
D istances
in miles.
K emabks .
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
in a north-west direction till it joins the Rudbar
stream. The low hills here exactly resemble the
Chul of Badghis and tlie Maimana frontierwhich
have been so often described.
The village of Shams Khan stands on the banks of
the stream just above the junction with it of
the valley we came down. The village of Zan-
galanlu is said to be about a farsakh higher up
the stream which is said to take its rise, like the
Lain stream, in the Hazar Masjid hill.
According to the aneroid ascent nearly 1,000 feet
in this march. The weather very hot, thermo
meter averaging about 88° in the shade at 4 p.m.
The road leads up the valley of the Hudbar stream
for a mile or so and then follows the telegraph
line up a lateral valley to the right. At about the
6th mile the road divides.
The telegraph line follows the road to the right
running direct to Muhammad at ad, take that to
the left to Chapashlu. After crossing various
low ridges for some 5 or 6 miles, the road eventu
ally leads down on to the level of the Daragaz
plain at a place called Ispain, and some 4 miles
beyond that lies Chapashlu surrounded with
gardens and vineyards. ^
Chapashlu contains some 400 families of Turks
and Kurds.
Turki is the language spoken by all. . . .
The village possesses some H5 ploughs of irrigated
land and 200 ploughs of unirrigated. A plough
of irrigated land here is held to be land capable
of taking two Daragaz kharwars of seed, i.e.,
1,820 lbs. and the unirrigated land one kharwar.
The outturn of irrigated land here is about ten
fold, but that of unirrigated when there is a good
rainfall is said to range from 20 to 40 fold.
The road leads north through the gap in the line
of low hills that runs down the centre of the
Daragaz plain here known as Kirkhkiz, the Turki
for Chahel Dukhtaran, about 4 miles out.^ There
is a good deal of water here and the place is green
and has several water mills. Beyond this garden
vineyards commence and stretch right away to
Muhammadabad (Mahmudabad).
The descent in the march about 500 feet, and the
heat in the day great, thermometer in tents at
4 p.m . being 90 .
C hapashlu
M uhammadabad
16
66
r
r
63