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and rocky mountains. The direction of the valley is from east to
south-west, in which direction the drainage falls towards the Gamasiab river,
the upper part above Harsin being a broad and cultivated plain ; mountains
bare of trees on all sides.
The water supply is most abundant, the principal source being a large
spring which gushes out of the mountain close to the town : the upper
part of the valley is also watered by numerous springs which form a fair
stream.
The gardens round and in the town are most luxuriant and in them
the houses are scarcely visible. They also stretch for some distance below
in a mass of verdure and are watered by broad and clear streams. The
town contains the remams of a former castle, now represented by some
rain-worn pinnacles and minarets of rubble masonry, rising to a consider
able height. The people are Harsini Kurds, but there is some intermixture
of Lurs in the villages of Karingi, Kariz, and Tamarg in the upper part
of the valley, immigrants from Luristan, the frontier of which is only 7
miles to the east.
Forage and grazing are abundant and supplies of every sort procurable.
There are large herds of sheep, goats and cattle, and a considerable area
of cultivation, which stretches over the whole of the upper part of the
Valley, the breadth of which is about 8 miles, and length from the Gashur
pass at its east end to the south-west gorge some 10 miles.
The town of Harsin itself (which is divided into the two parts of Lakhu
Sarab and Takhteh Khapi) is largely owned by men who are hereditary
servants of the Persian reigning family, to the number of 200 houses. For
further details see Rabino’s “ Gazetteer of Kirmanshah ”.— (Burton, 1893.)
HARUN—
A village 27| miles from Sultanabad, on the road to Burujird, after
passing out from which, a large plain or valley surrounded by high moun
tains comes in view ; it is profusely cultivated with cotton and castor.
The plain ii well-watered and dotted over with villages.— (Coningham ;
Schindler.)
HARUNABAD.—See Volume III.-—A buluk or district of Kirmanshah,
south of that town.
HARUN NISH IN KHAN—
A place in Kurdistan near Baneh. The territory of the Guran tribe
of Kirmanshah extends from the plain of Mahidasht to this point, which
forms the qishldq of the tribe.— (T. C. Plowden.)
HARZABlL (1)—
A little village on the edge of the forest above Manjll, on the southern
border of Gilan.— (Schindler.)
HARZAN—
A village of 200 houses in Azarbaijan, about 15| miles from Julfa on the
road to Tabriz, lying about 4 miles east of the road.— (Picot, 1894.)