'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎256v] (517/706)

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QUMA—QUMR
Opthalmia and diarrhoea in t!ie summer and autumn are frequently met
with. The crops are reaped as a rule twenty days earlier than in Tehran.
Occasionally after heavy ram, or sudden melting of the snows there is a flood
and the river does considerable damage to the town.
Communications .—A cart-road was constructed between this place and
Tehran on which the Persian Government established a carriage dak System of postal communication used in Moghul India and later by the East India Company. .
This road for a distance of 2 miles passes through hills, and the Persian
engineers to avoid cuttings have followed many level defiles and glens
and thus the road goes round and round like a snake, and its length is
neary doubled. Ihe Government has built 5 dak System of postal communication used in Moghul India and later by the East India Company. bungalows, and, except
these, there are no other habitations on the road.—(ScWfer.)
This road was taken over by the Persian Imperial Bank in 1890 and ceded
to Messrs. Lynch Brothers of London in 1903.
There is a post office here and telegraph offices both of the Persian Gov-
eminent and of the Indo-European Company.
The land north of the city for a mile towards Tehran on the left bank of
the river is called Mumajan and the land west of Mumaian is called
A brastaj an. (Stack Bell — Olding — Schindler .)
QUMAR—
7^ I 111 ^ 23 ^ mileS fr ° m K§shan on the road t0 Sultanabad.— (Preece,
QUMAR KHUN—
,o A , Vi !! age between S^anabad a *d Buriijird, 12 miles from the latter-
(bcfimdler.)
QUMISHEH (1)—Mahidasht. '
A village m the plain of Mahidasht l farsakh on the left of the road. It
frnrrT M-^ 1 i^ 6 f ° 0t ° f the mountains and is distant 2 farsakhs
’AIM 90 -il 011868 ' Cultlvatlon: grain. Proprietor: Saiyid
Abdul Qasim. A small stream has its source here and joins the Maiak
Flocks and herds on the surrounding plain. Supplies and camp room
l u ' l from fcho mountains 3 to 4 miles distant.—(Rafrmo ; Burton.) ?
QUMISHEH—(2) Elev. 5,370'.
o n 2 f h “i' < ?,i i n - 0rth i 0f l8fa ^ n ° n the road t0 Ardist an- A village situated
amnun/nf h T- P f’”’ “n* 1 cons ' 8tm g of 150 200 houses. A considerable
~°raJefa™imT n afewtrees ' Waterplenti£ul - butbrackish -
QUM RUD (village)—
About 12 miles north-east of Qum, inhabited by some 150 families
d ° nkeyS - Near the are the hamlets
of Daulatabad and Shanfabad. Opposite Qumriid village is an old dyke
much ruined, called Band-i-’Umar, which raises the water into the clnal
suppymg Qumrud and Sharifabad, the canal is 7 miles long.—(Schindler.)
QUMRUD (district)—
abonf on 1 ^ n i° f the f ^ um P rovi nce extending to the confines of the marshes,
village Qumi7d n0r Tt ea n ^ P 00r ’ ha ving only one
canafs from the river. UmiU dlStnct 18 w atered principally by open