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the filth and dirt inside are indescribable. It is perfectly circular and con
sists of 67 houses arranged in a round central block and two concentric
circular rows separated from each other by narrow streets. The houses
of the central block, as well as some of the rows, have three stories, and
the roof of the highest house has an elevation, reckoned from the foot
of the outer wall of the fort, of 83 feet. The fort is entered by a small hole
, which is approached by a narrow causeway and closed by a heavy stone
turning on a pivot. The village outside had, in 1875,85 houses; it now (1887)
has about 140.
Supplies are abundant. The corn-fields produce annually about 300
tons of grain. The Lasgird gardens are very extensive and famous for
their pomegranates, some of which have no pips, their almonds and pista
chios. The bread of Lasgird is also very good. The water-supply is abun
dant, but the water which comes from the hills is somewhat brackish. Las
gird has a mosque, a chaparkhana, a good brick caravansarai with 24 rooms
and a large hall below and some rooms in an upper storey, three reservoirs
for rain water, an ice house, and the tomb of two Imamzadehs, the brothers
Riza and ’Ali Akbar. The Lasgird people speak the dialect known as the
Samnan dialect. The distance from Lasgird to Tehran is 112f miles, to
' Shahrud 126| milos.—{Schindler ; Lemm.) In 1901 the Kaleh was abandoned
and all the inhabitants lived in the new village on the road side.—(ifofo'no.)
LASH—
A bridge over the Harhaz river, 6 miles from Paras, on the road to
Tehran.— (Holmes.)
LASHKARAK—
One of the Shah's shooting boxes, in the Jajrud valley, 22 miles north of
Galanda vak.— (Schindler .)
LASHKARDARKUH—
A mountain between Daulatabad Malayar and Burujird, to the east of
the road between these two places, and about 9 miles south-east of Daulat
abad.— (Schindler.) * ,
LAT—Lat. 37° V 54". Long. 49° 39' 25*.—(Lemm.)
A village in (Man, 18 miles from Rasht, on the road to Kazvin.
It is the caravansarai between Imamzadeh Hashin and Kudum.
LAUREH—
A river rising in the mountains north of Tehran, it flows at first towards
the west but after uniting with the Gach-i-Sar it turns south. From the
right the Laureh receives the Azadbar, Hasanger and Garmab, from the
left the Nisa and Kasil; it then unites at Duab with the Shahristanak and
the united river is called Karaj.— (Stahl.)
LAUZABAD—
A river in Mazandaran flowing into the Caspian between ’Abbasabad and
Kurkrusar.— (Holmes.)
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