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No. 59.
Shiraz to Lar, via, Firuzabad and Kir.
Author ity.-S t kCYL.
UIsTANCB, in
MILES.
Names of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
Deh-i-Nao
14
14
No. of
stage.
Remabks.
diverges : one branch going S.-E
S. across the Sbiraz plain through village and
gardens. At 8 miles the plain becomes swampy.
Leaving tbe swamp on the right, the road passes
over the Pul-i-Fasa, after crossing which the road
to Fasa, the other S. to Firuzabad. The road now runs
along the western foot of the stony Mahalu range. i)eh-i-Nao is a small walled village.
2 Kavar . . 22 38 r Seven miles through the Shiraz plain ; irrigation
from well; then the road crosses a spur from
Mahalu called the Baba Haji pass (there is an
. easier road round the spur fit for wheels). This
pass is not more than 150' above the plain, and there is a ruined caravansarai at the top.
Descend into tne plain of Kavar, which is watered by the Kara-Agatch. The plain is level
and studded with camel-thorn, villages at long intervals. Kavar itself is a large village
surrounded by orchards.
18 54 S.-E., and cross the river by a stone bridge,
the stream being barely fordable. On the further
side is the Safidar range, which is crossed by a
defile between cliffs 150' high. This pass is known
The pass widens as it ascends. On the other side the road descends
to the Dasht-i-Muak, a glen about 2 miles long, which opens on the Khwaji plain. This
part of the road is bad and difficult. Pass Zanjiran.
Jawahkan
as the Our Bahman.
Firuzabad
and villages.
Camp
24
68
Shaladun
27
95
26
121
Down the river through two defiles, the second
of which is often full of water and impracticable
in which case the hill side must be climbed.
Firuzabad lies in a spacious plain full of gardens.
S.-E. over the grassy plain of Firuzabad, with
a rocky ridge on either hand. At 8 miles pass
the small village of Tihdasht. At 12 miles turn
8. and eater a broken ridge of small hills.
Four miles among low hills; then ascend to a
narrow plain or plateau. At 9 miles down into
ravines, which gradually give place to a narrow
flower-clad valley between steep walls of rock.
Shaladun.
Kir
19
140
The road runs S. over a grand grassy plain ;
then over a range of hills by a steep and narrow
pass ; the descent is large, and winds about among
the sides and spurs of the hill ; then through
meadows along a stream to the half-ruined village of Kir, which stands in a plain about 25
miles long, running E. and W., and watered by the Kara-Agatch. From Kir is a road to
Jahrum.
.8
bridge.
Sabgah
40
180
The road runs behind low hills bordering the
Kir plain on its southern side, and at 12 miles
crosses the Kara-Agatch, here 60 yards broad
. and both swift and deep, by a quaint old stone
The road now enters broken country with low rocky hills ; then over a long arid
plain 3 to 6 miles wide, with hero and there a shallow pool. Sargah is a miserable little
village.