"تقرير عسكري عن جنوب غرب بلاد فارس، بما في ذلك أقاليم خوزستان (عربستان)، لورستان، وجزء من فارس" [و‎‎١‎٤‎٣] (٤٧٠/٢٩٠)

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Route No. 3 — concld.
From Gulpaigdn to Burujird, §c. —concld.
by a bridge ; the Rud-i-Pir, with 4 feet of water; the Rud-i-Dizful by the Pul-i-
Kul [see further on).
The remarks on the nature of the road crossed and the transport that can tra
verse it are as already given; the Dizful-Khoramabad route, given in detail
(Route No. 1), was said to be a king’s highway in comparison to the above
routes and that described by the Dara-SMraz.
A third road was said to pass by the Dara-SMraz, and that by it Shustar
could be reached by the stages below, viz .,—
1. Dara Shiraz.
2. Dara Dahi
3. Chiikan
4. Zaz
5. Chal-i Nurrak
6. Pul-i-Kul
7. Guru
8. Idapar
9. fear-i-dasht
Farsakhs.
3 (village).
3 (river Dizful).
3 (village).
Thence one stage to either Shustar or Diztul.
The above accounts were taken at an assemblage of the leading men of
AH-Gudar; it was most difficult to get them to confine their remarks to the
roads passino- through the hills. Arguing that it was impossible for me to go
P ^ 1 -i y . . inv of th(»m thev would break off into accounth
with my baggage mules by any on / an d that Chahal Chashmah,
BdltH^r^iXrmd on?rtencVby the Upper Isfahan-ShusUr road
• ' n' ft rhnlbar (see nave 281), roads passing round the mam intricate
v,a Bazuft and v ^ d| it;on to discant on
mass of hi Is and not « r th « ^ / ,f t me ,; han dise never went by any other
them, combined with their statemen tnar ^ aiemunt that the h;11 roads p have
roads leads me to bel “' e 1 y CTCep t to the Lurs, who move over them
just described are quite impass ,1 a nd cows, and who use the two
with their Sheep, goats, mules hor^s, d -ke^„d ovvs ^ horsemen
latter, the donkeys and cows only, as
The Lurs reach the mtuTno^kesnows* Whilst’the
Their movements however depend upon the^me time that the main
escape formidable in the lulls.
To reach Dara-Shimz
westerly course than the one to A i u , l j (Amieman village
Mughanak by several ruined vi) ages, and M. lekaoau i
with 30 families, elevation 7,000 ) .—{Schwdler.) ^