"تقرير عسكري عن جنوب غرب بلاد فارس، بما في ذلك أقاليم خوزستان (عربستان)، لورستان، وجزء من فارس" [و‎‎١‎٥‎٠] (٤٧٠/٣٠٤)

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Route No. 3A— contd.
From Gulpaigdn to the Zarda Kuh, 8fc. —contd.
Distances in
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Names of towns, villages, &c.
MILES.
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Time.
Interme
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Total.
Eemarks.
From Pul-i-Zaman Khan to Deh-i-Kurd was said to be 3 farsakhs (see page 279).
General Remarks.—The road throughout the stage is of a hard surface, 6 ' to 10' wide,
except when otherwise noted.
21st May 1884.
Barometer 22 , 95' / ; thermometer 48°.
Road, a hard and broad track, descends
a shallow stony ravine; the country is
barren; no grass or trees grow ; rocky hills
crop up here and there; soil, sandy and
stony.
To the left low undulations extend to a range of hills about 10 miles distant.
A.M.
5-45
Ab-PunA
41
7-10
7-35
8-15
8-30
HusainabAd
diameter of about 1,200 paces, and contains
Crosses a small stream.
Small village, with a walled fruit garden,
watered by a small stream, along which
wheat is cultivated. There is a range of
high undulations 2 miles to the right.
Country, gently undulating; slopes
gradually downward ; soil shaly.
A small enclosure or kal’a ; on a bearing
of 75° are the village and town of Ismia-
jun and Arun, surrounded by fruit gar
dens, all walled. The town of Tirun has a
450 houses. It is surrounded by well preserved
walls flanked by towers, and is the head-quarters of the district containing 50 villages lying
between NajafaMd and Dumbana.
9-5 ... ... Passes the east end of the gardens refer
red to and round a high undulation ; soil,
sandy and stony ; the road, a broad,
30' track, joins in with the main Isfahan-
Gulpaigan road.
The hills to the right are 2 miles distant, and intervening is a barren plain.
9-22
AzizabAd
...
6-35
which rocky undulations crop up here and there.
Road skirts a stretch of cultivation consistin;
wheat is from 2' to 3' high and in ear.
10-10
Village, lying 1 § miles to the right half
front, surrounded by fruit gardens,
i Crosses a plentiful stream 3' broad.
| The hills to the left are now 2 to 2|-
| miles distant, and those to the right 3 to
j 4 miles. Between them lies a barren plain
j studded with a few gardens, and out of
of wheat, fruit trees, and poplars. The
The hills, 2 miles distant to the left,
look to have a considerable depth, and to
be composed of a number of detached,
barren, rocky hills rising 1 , 000 ' over the
plain.