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exce'lent grazing. The mountain contains wild sheep on its higher summits
during the spring, while ibex are found on its lower slopes. Panthers, bears,
wolves, wild cats, hares, partridges, quail and pigeons are also to be found.
There are several very fine looking peaks on it, one of them forming an almost
perpendicular wall of rock about 2,000 feet in height. The scenery generally
is grand, though desolate looking, owing to the want of trees ; bushes and
shrubs, forming good firewood, abound. Its camping-grounds in the lower
valleys would form pleasant halting places during the hottest part of the
summer. The route to it from Kirmanshah runs up the Tang-i-Kinisht and
up the first valley leading into the hills on the right. Water from a spring
about 5 miles up the valley.
There are said to be some very extensive caves in the hill, which are passed
ew rowZe to Zalu-Ab.— {Vaughan.) t .
KUHPAYEH—
A Mahall of the Isfahan province, containing 1,600 square miles, south of
Ardistan, east of Isfahan on both sides. Chief place Kuhpa, q. v. other
villages Zefreh, Fasharq, Mishkinan, Harand.— {Schindler.)
KtfH ECD—(1) Lat. 33° 40' 25". Elev. 1,210.—{St. John.) 33°—40'—
25" {Fraser) 33°—40"—49" {Lentz).
A village 75 miles from Isfahan, on the road to Tehran. It is justly cele
brated as one of the pleasantest places in Persia. It contains about 300
houses and is situated on the steep side of a hill, so that the houses almost
seem to stand upon one another. Below is the caravansarai, and near it,
on rising ground, the remains of an old castle. Between various eminences
the valley appears richly cultivated, and finely diversified with gardens ferti
lised by a stream, which abundantly supplies it with water and causes a
large yield of most admirable fruit.
The village and gardens of Kuh Rud completely command the road and
would be a very difficult position to force. The pass of Kuh Rud (8,800') lies
to the south of this village. The road is bad and stony. On the top of the
pass is an artificial lake, about \ mile long, of clear water, formed by dam
ming up the river.
The range over which this pass lies is a spur from Mount Alvand ; it is
crossed again on the road from Isfahan to Yazd, and continues to tie south
of Yazd, and is probably eventually lost in the desert towards Sistan.—
{Ouseley; Morier; Clerk; Taylor; Smith.)
The range forms part of the central Persian range, which extends from
Azarbaijan in a south-east direction to Baluchistan.
A large village of over 200 houses in the Barzrud district of the province
of Natanz ; it is also called Kutehrud and Karu. It is joined to a village
called Javinam, (by the illiterate Ja-i-nam,) about one quarter its size.
It is picturesquely situated on the slope of the hill west of the high road and
has many gardens and orchards with fine fruit. The water-supply is from
a stream which rises in the hills close by and flows northwards to the Kashan
plain. A few miles below Kuhrud and just above the old caravansarai of
Gabrabad which belongs to Kashan the stream is dammed up by the cele
brated Band-i-Kuhrud., built in the first half of the seventeenth century.
Opposite is the tomb of a saint.— {Schindler.)