'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎195v] (395/706)

378 KUHPA—KUH PAR
KtHPA or YlR—Lat. 32° 42' 25" ; Long. 52° 2' 46" ; Elev. 6,011'.
The chief village of the Kuhpayeh Mahall or district in the province of
Isfahan.
The town lies 50 miles east of Isfahan and is surrounded by a high mud
wall, unloopholed, but strengthened by semi-circular loopholed towers which
project at intervals. It contains about 700 houses, and is watered by two
Jcandt streams from the north, water brackish. There are three small cara-
vansarais built of sun-dried bricks which are inside the walls, and there are
a few shops. A large number of abbas or cloaks are made, occupying some
400 of the inhabitants. There is a Persian Telegraph Office which is open,
when the clerk is not at Nam.
Outside the town, and facing the entrance to it, is a caravansarai of burnt
brick. It is 60 yards square with round towers at the corners. Its entrance
faces the town, which is commanded from its roof within a distance of 150
yards.
The roof, formed of tiles, is about 14 inches thick, and has an all round
parapet 6 to 7 feet in height, with 40 faultily constructed loopholes in each
face. Its thickness is 15 inches. The top of the parapet is 21 feet from the
ground, and the walls of the building itself are very massive. The building
contains stabling for 200 horses.
The yearly revenue, in the lime of ’Ali Shah, amounted to 5,000 tumdns,
under the Government of his successor to 6,500 tumdns and in 1879, to'
10,000 tumdns.
There is said to be a good road from here to Fasharq 10| miles. 2| miles to
the north at the foot of the hills, is an encampment of Sarabl Arabs number
ing 100 tents. Firewood is scarce. Supplies procurable in large quantities.
Camping ground good, | mile north of the town on a kandt.- - -(Stack ; Vaughan;
Schindler.)
KUH-PANJEH—
A precipitous three-peaked elevation in the range which divides the pro
vince of Kirmanshah from the country to the north ; it marks the position of
the pass, called Gardan-i-Girdakanu.— (Napier.)
KUH PARAU—
A mountain in Kirmanshah, about 8 miles north-east of Kirmanshah city.
It forms part of a range of high mountains that commence at Bisitun in the
Kuh Bisitun to the east and runs north-west as far as Gurgman in the Bilawar
valley. The western portion of the chain consists of the Kuh-Arjuwan,
Kuh Baluch, Kuh Zilu and Kuh Kinish. The Kuh Parau, which is the
highest of these, is over 11,470 feet in height. During July and August a
number of villagers from the Kirmanshah plain migrate to the upper portion
of the hill and feed their flocks on the fresh grass which appears as the snow
slowly melts. There are regular tracks to their camping-grounds, which are
possible for mountain batteries. The range is of limestone formation and
between its higher rocky peaks it contains a number of small valleys the
drainage of which has no outlet except a hollow in the centre, or under one
of the rocks at its side. These hollows contain snow all the year round, the
water from them percolating through the hills and issuing in springs or streams
into the lower valleys at the base of the range. These valleys contain