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PUL-I-D—PUL-1-K
PUL-I-DALLAK— Elev. 2,820 feet.
A bridge over the Kara-Su or Kara Chai river, 59 miles from Tehran
towards Qum. On the left bank of the river is a sarai and post-honse.
The river has in April a considerable volume of water, though it is brack
ish and muddy ; in summer it is quite dry. Supplies are brought here for
caravans from Qum. The river is at times considerable, but the water
is always brackish ; water more palatable is found in a well nearly 2 miles
distant. There are no houses but the sarais, though a few nomads wander
about in the vicinity.
The bridge is strong, well built of brick and paved with stone ; near it
the banks of the river are covered with bushes and shrubs, particularly
barberry trees, and reeds very long, straight, and beautifully tufted or
feathered at the top. The water of the river is so brackish as to be almost
salt, notwithstanding which cattle drink it.
There is a spring of good water at a short distance.
Its post-house and caravansarai are now, since the new post-road from
Tehran to Qum was opened, deserted.— {Schindler.)
PUL-I-DUAB—
A bridge at the junction of the Ab-i-Tureh, and_ another stream on the
Burujird-Qum road. The united stream is called Ab-i-Mani-Zo, and flows
northwards in a valley, bearing 5°. The bridge is about 38 miles from
Burujird ; it consists of 8 arches, none over 15 feet span, and is 200 feet
long and 10 feet wide.— {Bell, 1884.)
PUL-I-DUTA KUR or PUL-I-DUKHTAR-I-KURD (The bridge of
2 children.)—
A bridge over the Ab-i-Ganjir, between Pul-i-Suruf Shah and Tang-i-
Shuturgardan, on the Gllan-Mandali road, 1| miles from Kara Yashakan.
— {Rabino, 1907.)
PUL-I-GILARA—
A bridge in Mazandaran crossing the Harhaz 1| miles from Baizan, 76
miles from Tehran, on the road to Amul.— {Napier.)
PUL-I-KACHAK— Elev. 4,390 feet.
A bridge over the Ab-i-Khunsar, about 28 miles from Qum, on the road
to Gulpalgan. It is a masonry bridge of 5 arches, 100 feet long, 8 feet
wide, paving, rough, of stones ; span of centre arch, 12 feet to 15 feet.
The bed of the river is much obstructed by huge boulders ; current rapid ;
the ascent from the bridge on the left side is rocky and difficult for 100
yards ; the river valley is here 300 yards wide.— {Bell, 1884.)
PUL-I-KARASU or PUL-I-SHAH—
This bridge consists of 6 arches and is very strongly built and kept in
good condition. The whole structure is of burnt bricks. It was built by
a certain Shaikh ’All Khan, once Prime Minister under one of the Saffavi
j monarchs and an ancestor of the present Zahir-ul-Mulk. The bridge is on
S the highway between Kirmanshah and Bisitun at 1 farsakh from the
former and five from the latter. Close by are the ruins of a caravansarai
built by the same Shaikh ’Ali Khan, as wakf for pilgrims. The Pul-i-
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