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No. 59-
Shiraz fo Lar, vid Firuzabad and Kir.
No. of
stage.
Names of stages.
Disiancb, in
MILES.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
Rbmabks.
9
Kabiitn .
(Habian?)
8
188
Five miles over a muddy plain to Harur, a
village of 200 houses, with extensive date groves.
Kariun, 3 miles further, is twice as large, hut half
empty and ruined. It stands in the middle of
rocky hills, on one of which is a fort overlooking the town,
10
Bidshahb
23
211
wells now take the place of spring water,
Over low hills covered with camel-thorn; up a
rocky pass, and down to the Bidshahr plain with
a salt lake. At the further end date palms, tam
arisks, and brackish water. Rain water tanks and
11
Avaz
23
234
At 4 miles pass the fort of Kaura at the mouth
of a defile, which is now entered. After travers
ing it, the road goes S. E.between parallel ranges
of low hills, the vegetation being chiefly date and
tamarisk. The plain is cultivated in good season, and there are several ruined villages.
Cross a low ridge and enter Avaz, which has a population of about 1,000 people, and boasts
a small fort. The plain is here only a mile wide.
N.B .—This is the same place as is mentioned by Butcher in Route No. 20 Bu-
shahr to Bandar Abbas, stage 20,
12
Lab
22
256
2,976'.
Down the Avaz plain ; then amongst limestone
hills, with patches of wheat in the hollows. Lar
is a town of about 6,000 inhabitants, and has a
small garrison.
No. 60.
Shiraz to Bandar Abbas, vid Darab and Furg .
Authority. —Preece, Abbott, Ouseley.
Remarks.
Out of the town by the Isfahan gate, then turn
ing to the right, following the road alongside the
ditch of the town for three-quarters of a mile, tak
ing a direction S.-E., proceeded to the village of
Jafarabad, 4J miles from the gate. The road is quite flat, and for the most part passes
through cultivated ground. Jafarabad is a small village, with a private house and garden
belonging to a Shiraz merchant. Pul-i-Fasa is 6 miles beyond. It is a bridge of nine small
arches and crosses a small stream, which runs into the salt lake some few miles further on.
It rises in the marsh of Karabagh, some 6 miles to the westward. At present its waters are
sweet, but as the season progresses, they become brackish and undrinkable. The road from
Jafarabad to the bridge ran through a perfectly level plain, marshy in places, with a slight
salt efflorescence here and there. During heavy rains it becomes very soft, and the going
is bad.
Distance, in
No. of
stage.
MILES.
Names of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
1
Mahalu .
23f
23f