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QAMtJ— Elev. 7,920'.
A village of about 120 houses in the Jushqan province, 3 miles north
west of Jushqan Qali. Water plentiful, 3 water mills and fine gardens.
Climate rigorous.— {Schindler.)
QlNLl dagh—
A mountain in the Hamadan distiict. The Tehran-Hamadan road
crosses its southern slopes at an elevation of 6,584 feet. The village of
_ Buyukabad or Bubukabad lies on its eastern side.— {Schindler.)
QAPLAN KUH (1)—(The panthers’hill.)
This range, running east and west, crosses the Tabriz road between
Zinjan and Mianeh and is traversed by a difficult pass, at an elevation
of 4,800 feet, 62 miles from Zinjan. From the southern side it is entered
by a well built bridge, whence it winds for about 4 miles to the valley
of Mianeh. The road is steep, but easily passable for mules in fine weather ;
- in its worst parts a “ stone farsh ” (stone carpet) has been built, about
a mile long, but it is little used, except in wet and stormy weather. The
mountains on either side are abrupt, and from this pass appear to present
a rugged barrier. In good hands they would offer a strong line of defence
against an enemy coming from the north.—(Pico£, lS9i.)
QAPLAN KUH (2)-
A range of hills crossed by the Tehran-Hamadan road, 128 miles from
Tehran. Elevation of pass 5,450 feet.— {Schindler.)
QAPLAN KUH (3)—
This range is a spur of the Azarbaijan mountains. The ascent from the
west commences almost immediately after crossing the Karangu river
and takes about 1| hours, and the descent about the same. Fraser says
it is one of the easiest mountain passes he ever crossed. It rises about
1,000 feet above the plain. When Eastwick passed it in 1861, a good road
was being made over it, about 40 feet broad, with a foundation of stone
and a gutter on either side. The crest of this pass is the boundary
between the provinces of Azarbaijan and Khamseh. The remains of a
stone causeway are here and there visible. Morier makes the following
remarks regarding the geology of this mountain :—
“ Its stratifications have been thrown together by some great com
motion into the most extravagant positions. In some places they are
perpendicular ; in other almost horizontal. On the south of the Kizil
Uzun is one limb of the mountain, almost entirely composed of chalk,
here and there with schistose strata intervening ; and on the right of the
road in the descent from Gultappeh are hills apparently of clay, of conical
forms, more or less distended, the strata of which are as horizontal as if
mathematically laid.” — {Holmes; Fraser; Eastwick; Morier; Ouseley;
Stuart.)
QARABULAGH—
A village in the Yailaq huluk of Kurdistan about 5 farsakht east of Si-
andij (1902). 1