'Military Report on South-West Persia, Including the Provinces of Khuzistan (Arabistan), Luristan, and Part of Fars' [‎247] (278/466)

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Koute Ho. 3.
F rom G ulpaigan to B urujird by the C haman - i -S ultan R oute skirting
the B a KHTIARI HlLLS.
Authority —Major M. S. Bell.
Distance—89 miles.
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aw
Time.
Names of towns, villages, &c.
D istances in
miles.
Interme
diate.
Total.
Remarks.
a.m.
5-0
5-15
5-40
5-40
6-10
7-20
9th May 1884.
GtjlpatgIn (elevation
5,875').
Long. 50° 20' E.
Lat. 33° 24' N.
Warna SntrN
Barometer 24*0 f/ ; thermometer 48°.
Clear of the town, the road is a mnle
track over a clay soil, and is cut up by
numerous irrigation channels.
Good wheat and clover growing.
Leaves the valley and skirts the gravel
ly slopes of the steep and barren hills to
the west of the town, becoming a good,
hard, and broad (30') surface track.
Cultivation in the valley ceases, and it
becomes covered with tufts of grass and
a low thorn bush.
A small village, situated at the head
of the Lambi pass, surrounded by cultiva
tion and walled gardens of fruit trees,
&c.; the road passes through the gap, the
Tang-i-Lumbi, 500 yards to the northward of the village ; barometer 23*6' / (6,620'). Crossing
a hardcherty rock (50 yards long) it becomes a mule path, improving into a 15' road on gain
ing the valley leading up to Khonsar. This valley, here 500 yards wide, is richly cultivated
and soon opens out; it is bounded by hills 300' high ; walled enclosures fill its bottom, on
either side of the stream.
Crosses to the right bank of a rapid
stream, 8' wide, running in a bed 18' deep,
by a brick bridge, 1 arch, 18' span.
Abreast of the village of Khajan, a long
scattered village lying in the valley with
its detached huts surrounded by walled
gardens ; mud walls 6' to 10' high.
Between the outer lower hills and the
Kuh-i-Khonsar, covered with snow, is a
range of low, barren undulations, of
shale.
8-15
8-50
9-15
9-20
KhajIn
Khajtjn
Walnut, willow, mulberry and poph
Still skirting the gardens of the village
of Khajiin, crosses several short stretches
of shale, each 40 to 100 yards long, where
the road narrows to a mule track.
Passes between walled gardens; poplars,
3" in diameter, are numerous ; those of G 7
diameter are rare. Fruit trees (pear, plum,
greengage, apple, nut, &c.) are abundant,
ars are fairly plentiful.