"النقل الآلي الطرق في بلاد فارس. المجلد ١ - الطرق الرئيسية. ١٩٤٢" [ظ‎‎٣‎٣] (٤٩٨/٧١)

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Route II-B— contd.
Miles.
Classification. Inter. Total.
C. 1 k 6 f
C. 1 k 7
C. 1 6 i 13!
c.
1
u
144
c.
l
11
164
c.
1
h
16|
c.
1
H
00
rH
c.
1
11
20
c.
1
2!
224
c.
1
24
25
c.
1
14
264
C. 1 li 27J
Keep left.
Stony wadi bed 12 ft. wide—dry in summer
—liable to spate. Road starts the long
steep and tortuous ascent erf the KARA-
KHAIEH Pass. (SIAH-PAYEH on
!" map). The road is narrow and the
six hair-pin bends in the ascent have
an average radius of 12 ft (? M. T.
Routes in IRAN gives radius as 20').
The soil is soft and the drainage poor.
A very difficult climb.
Summit. The descent is not so steep, so
long or so tortuous as the ascent, but
the red clay would give trouble in wet
weather.
Small spring and stream on right of road
—bad interlude of one mile.
A short stretch of very steep and tortuous
descent (Average gradient 1— 6 ) to a
ford over a small stream and a steep
rise thereafter. The road is unmetalled.
QARAWEL (50 houses) on right. Road
ascends very sharply with many hairpin
bends.
Summit—gentle descent of ! mile. Spring,
pond and good camp site on right.
After rising again road reaches next
summit from which the descent is
gentle.
Stream, cultivation and tea house.
Spring and pond on left.
HUSAINHABAD—Gendarmerie post—
150 houses and cultivation on left.
(a) Camping grounds. —On left—sandy
soil, stony surface—entrance and exits
difficult. Sufficient for Bde.—M. T.
must park on road.
(b) Water. —From the QISHLAQ river on
left—perennial, plentiful and good, or
from an irrigation channel on the site.
Turn left over two fords and over
rough patch of country for 200 yards.
Gentle ascent up narrow cultivated valley.
Metalled road,