"الطرق في بلاد فارس. القسم III" [ظ‎‎١‎٢‎٧] (٧٣٩/٢٥٩)

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No. 109— concld.
Rui-Khaf to Gunabad (Jumain),
Names of stages.
D istances
IK MILE 13.
Interme
diate.
Total.
KBAIABSS.
descends this slope to the small village of ITalat,
whence it again ascends between rounded hills.
From the top of these, not far off, is the abrupt
jagged range of Kuh-i-Sinau. From this the
road passes through a small basin-shaped valley,
and then ascends by easy gradient to a valley s
whence the ridge is crossed at no very great
height. Thence the road descends for miles
over a stonyj steeply inclined plain to a perfectly
fiat steppe, on which are several villages, the
nearest of which is Asadabad.
Naodpishan
JUMAIN
18
771
The road goes over the same plajn as above to
Kasimabad and Susano on the left, after which
it begins to ascend along a watercourse towards
the Khaibar Kuh, and when this is neared, it
ascends more steeply into a rocky ravine with
numerous small trees, whence it crosses the
northern end of the Khaibar Kuh, by a not very
high pass. Thence it descends by a pretty steep
and rocky path to a ruined rohat without
water, passing by curiously shaped mountains
with mushroom-like tops, whence it descends more
gradually over a stony, sloping plain to a very
broad clay and sand tract into a thicket of about
3J miles broad. After passing through this,-
it goes over a very broad tract of clay, bare of
vegetation, overflowed in spring by the rain and
melted snow from the mountains, for 7 miles to
a haoz with no water. Thence the road goes
over a sandy clay tract, rising on the right into
hills of drift sand, towards the end of the Gissar
Kuh. Thence it goes over first a gravelly, then
stony, and at last sandy tract to some cultivated
ground to Naodpishan,
The road runs south west through hills of driven
sand to the large village of Bimurgh at miles.
It then ascends first over a dry plain along an
open watercourse, and then goes through a nar
row sandy valley among chains of hills, which
connect the mountains jon the right and left;
then over the ridge, whence it descends over a
broad, slightly inclined plain, highly irrigated and
cultivated, with villages thickly studded around.
Jumain is the principal one of a cluster of eight
villages which constitute the township of Guna*
bad.
This route is apparently taken from Khanikoff.