"الطرق في بلاد فارس. القسم III" [ظ‎‎١‎٧‎٦] (٧٣٩/٣٥٧)

298
No. 153— concld.
M azinan to N ishabur, via Jagatai, Rohat -i-Gez and Madan.
No.
of
stage.
D istances
in miles.
E emaeks.
Names of stages.
Interme
diate.
Total.
4
K obat-i -G ez ...
46
112
Across level cultivated plain, covered witli villages
for 28i miles ; thence 17i miles over dry tract,
one reservoir of water half-way to small village
of Rohat, or Robat-i-Gez ; for last 3 miles^ plain,
much cut up by deep ravines and closing in to 8
or 10 miles. Water at stage bad and scanty.
Good water at village Khushab, 3 miles right on
hillskirts. Supplies of grain, etc., procurable.
No fuel near. Connects with Eoute No. 18,
stage 4.
Over undulating, uncultivated plain to Jumbarju,
small village, foot of hill, known as Kuh Madan,
14 miles ; thence over low hills, with uniformly
easy slopes, passing under the small fortified
village of Pahnai, across the Julgah-i-Batau, to
the village of Madan, Hi miles. Road good.
Several springs en route. Madan has good ''wa
ter, but supplies scanty and dear ; nothing grown
in the village. Turquoise mines (see Gazetteer).
iVoife.—Direct route to INishabur leaves rohat
about east-south-east, and passes across the plain
known as Julgah-i-Shorab out of the Juwain
valley, into the Nishabur plain, and joins the
road by this route, 7 or 8 miles from Nishabur.
Cf. Route No. 168, stage 1 and see Index.
5
M adak
25i
137|
6
N ishabur
28
165J
Pass out of Madan glen, south-east, over low hills
into narrow valley draining south-east, and en
closed by low ranges, with uniformly easy slope;
following watercourse for 8 miles, reach bank of
brook flowing from Marusk valley. Thence
bending south, and still following drainage line
down broad, undulating valley into plain of Nisha
bur. At 14 miles leave stream, flowing south,
cross ; at 16 miles, a stream 1 foot deep, 10 feet
wide, flowing from Khanluk, large village in
valley of main chain to left and passing villages
of Hisar and Aliabad. Thence 12 miles across
level cultivated plain, with numerous villages to
Nishab\n\ See Index.
"Note. —The Juwain valley may be entered from
Jajarm by a perfectly open good road, the dist
ance to Jagatai being 10 farsakhs, or at the Pul-
i-Abrasham, 7 or 8 miles from Abbasabad, on the
high-road, from whence to Shafiabad, through an
open valley, is a distance of 4 farsalchs ; thence 5
to Jagatai up the valley. Both these
routes are at present unsafe without guards.
From Mazinan to Jagatai there is a short cut,
due north-east passing to south of peak of Kuh
Zar, but passable only for footmen.