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JABAL BAKHUN (Laristan)—
A mountain 10,660 feet high, 42 miles north | east from Bandar Abbas
seen from the sea between Kuh-i-Ginau and Jabal Shamil. It has three
little peaks, and is covered with snow for many months. (Constable;
Stiffe ; Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Pilot.)
JABAL BARIZ or JAMAL BARIZ (Range)—Lat. 28° 34' 24" ; Long.
58° 18' 44". I
A mountain range in Kirman, running north-west and south-east, and r
forming part of the main orographic system of Persia. The name Jamal
Bariz (or more properly Jabal Bariz) is applied in some maps to the whole
of the great range which divides the hot country of Jiruft from tlm up
lands of Rayin and Sarduieh, but this is erroneous, and the name is, strictly
speaking, only applicable to that section of the range contaming the gr^at
peak Amjaz, which towers above Dusari, and separates Jiruft from the
district of Bam-Narmashir. To the east of this section is the Zurnak
Pass, while the prolongation of the range beyond this is termed the Shah
Savaran Kuh. The drainage from the north and north-eastern slopes
disappears into the Shurgaz Hamun, while that from the southern slopes
flows into the Halil Rud, and eventually into the Jaz Munan Hamun.
Some of the higher peaks reach an altitude of 15,000 feet, or perhaps
more. Many of the valleys enclosed in this massive wall of mountains
are rich and cultivated and have large orchards. The hillsides are thickly
covered with shrubs and trees of all sorts, amongst which are fine oak,
fly cypress, Jcassar (Pistachio tereblntha), gwan (Pistachio mutica, ) gisthan
(PeriUca aphylh), ba lam (Nerium odor urn), etc., and game is found in
considerable quantities. _ . ^ „
Floyer, who travelled through this range m December 1876^by the bag-
dar Pass, describes his ascent from a place called Dasht-i-Kush, a small
arm of the Jiruft plain, at the southern skirts of the range as follows
“ On December the 5th, we started at 6-40 a.m. winding along the foot
oi the hills with a gradual ascent. Soon we^ travelled along the north* rn
bank of a tributary of the Shur river, which, in spite of its name, was sweet
enough, and, judging from the flocks of large white and black herons, con
tained numerous fish. At 8-17 the Sargaz village bore 210 , distant 10
miles, and after a laborious two hours’ crossing the talus of a huge hill we
turned up and a steep ascent began. The road was a shingly watercourse,
flanked on either side by grand cliffs and masses of rock, sparsely covered
with shrubs. I carefully observed the vegetation on this side of the range, ^
but I never thought, of finding such marked and characteristic difference
between this side and the other as I did. One of the shrubs looked exactly
like majguk (capital camel fodder), but it was as bitter as a bitter almond
and useless to us. At 12-27 we reached the first summit, 5,770 feet across
a shallow valley, and at 1 p.m. reached the second summit (barometer 24-45),
5,523 feet. There was a huge mountain on our right about 1,500 feet higher
than we were covered with snow, across another valley. At 2 p.m., we