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'Military Report on South-West Persia, Including the Provinces of Khuzistan (Arabistan), Luristan, and Part of Fars' [‎228] (247/466)

The record is made up of 1 volume (390 pages). It was created in 1885. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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228
R oute N o. 1 — conid.
From Muhammerah to Tehran, 8fc. —contd.
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DlSTATfCES IN"
MILES.
Numbe
Stag(
Time.
Names of towns, villages, &c.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Eemarks.
* Road descends over rounded undulations of clay and granular felspatMc rock.
a.m.
10-10
10-25
SlEINJA
Descends into a fertile valley ; soil
10-45
Small village, 700 yards to the soutli.
Small village ; the hills here are of a
softish dark coloured shale with out
crops of quartz,
of excellent quality, a sandy clay ; ploughing in progress.
Fords the Ab-i-Sirinja, 10' to 20' wide,
18'' deep, running in a valley 150' wide,
and having a general direction of 25°.
The sides of the valley are composed of a
Down-stream there is a village on its left bank, 2 miles distant, and one on its
dark shale
right bank, 1 mile off.
11.5 ...... ... ... Crosses the skirt of the Kuh-i-Seknranr,
Fords the Kiillan stream, 50' wide, 3' deep;
banks low ; current swift; bed of boulders;
barometer 23 , 45' / (6,910'). The general
direction of the valley is 325° down-stream, and 140° up-stream.
11-15 ...... ... ... Road ascends gently over rounded
undulations to cross the Kuh-i-Rustamrah.
Small village 600 yards to the southward;
soil shaly, lying fallow.
Road becomes a mere mule track, and
winds round the hill side, the last ascent
being through a narrow gorge, down which.
p.m . a snow stream flows.
12-20 Summit of the hill; barometer 22-55
(7,900'). From the summit nothing is to be
seen but the tops of huge, brown, barren
. undulations covered with patches of snow.
In the bottoms of the valleys cultivation occurs, and here the few small villages nestle, surrounded
by their scant growth of poor poplar saplings.
Descends, skirting the shaly hill side.
12-30 ... ... Main valley runs 55°.
12-40 Khusk-i-Duee ... Small village lying in the valley ; these
villages average in size 100 yards by 100
yards: very few supplies can be obtained
in them.
Barometer 22'8" (7,590'); temperature 56°. „ ,
Road, a mule track, ascends round huge undulations, with average slopes of 10 9 ; rock oi
hard shale; general gradient of track to ; patches of snow in all directions.
1-5 ...... I Barometer 22-5 // (7,850'j. Descendsthe
hill side, and rounds its skirt into a
valley having a general direction of 215 ,
the first descent for 400 yards is then gentle ; soil, clay and shale. The snow is nowiast
melting, and ploughing is just commencing in the bottom of the valley.
I 1-30 1 Dt -JuLF ... ( Village 500 yards to the south in the
1 I | valley, in which a plentiful stream flows.
The name of the hill beyond its left bank is " Kiih-i-Farozan."

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Military Report on South-West Persia, Including the Provinces of Khuzistan (Arabistan), Luristan, and Part of Fars by Major and Bt. Lieut-Col. Mark S. Bell, V.C., R.E.

Publication Details: Simla: Government Central Branch Press, 1885. Prepared in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India.

Physical Description: 3 maps in end pockets. 41 plates.

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1 volume (390 pages)
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This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references.

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Dimensions: 245mm x 150mm

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