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KAB—KAD
The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in agriculture, and the crops, which
are irrigated by two streams of water from the Laleh zar river, consist of
some 2,QP0 Indian maunds of wheat and barley, 650 Indian mam ds c f
cotton 420 Indian maunds of millet, and 2.500 mans of beetroot and turnips.
The drainage is towards Rafsinjan on west.
Livestock are : 200 donkeys, 300 cattle, 500 sheep and goats. Bhusa,
firewood, and supplies, sufficient for one regiment, can be obtained here.
Maize is cultivated. On Christmas day, 1905, 22° (Fah.) of frost were
registered.
3 Mar inis and 5 muzzle-loaders.
There is a good caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). and a cha'parlchdneh of sun-dried brick.—
(Wood, 1899—Sher Jane/, 1902 — Gibbon, 1908.)
KABUT-IMUKHTAR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A pass traversed by the Khurramabad-Dizfiil road, about 40 miles from
the former, just before the road descends into the Mlshvand valley.
{Schindler.)
KACHAL KUH—
A mountain in Kirmanshah on the west of the road from Kirmanshah city
to Baghdad via Mandali. The Kifraur valley is north of it, and that side
of it which rises out of the valley is a very precipitous wall of rock for many
hundred feet. Its summit is open and level, while there is a dense growth
of trees at its foot and in its valleys. Its height must be somewhere near
8,000 feet. It is part of the range which borders the Guar valley to the
north- W 'S f . South of it is the Chila valley into which it slopes more gra
dually. Within 4 miles to the east of it are passes, from the Chila into the
Guar valley—the Gardanehs Timanjik and Amrulluh.—( Vaughan.)
KACHl— Lat. 27° 8' N. Long. 55° 56' E. Elev. 3'.
A village in the Shamil district, 23| miles from Bandar ’Abbas and about
1 mile south of the road leading from that place to Lar. It consists of ap
proximately 100 houses, of which about half are neatlv built of mud and
stone and the rest of date-mats, and contains some 400 inhabitants.
On the road is an old dilapidated caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). with a large cistern, and
between this and the village lie considerable date plantations, while to the
east rises a rocky range of hills known as the Kuh-i-Gachin. Water is
plentiful, and camel-grazing good.— {Butcher, April 1888.)
KACHLI—
A village in the plain of upper Linjan, near the Zindeh Rud, some 40 miles
from Isfahan. It lies to the left of the road from Isfahan to Shushtar.—
{Schindler.)
KADAMGAH— Lat. 29° 45'N. Long. 53° 13'E Elev.
A halting-place in Ears, on the Tashk-Shiraz road, 20 miles before reach
ing Persepolis.
Kadamgah is a platform cut out of the natural rock ; it has two easy
Eights of stops leading up to it. It appears to have been originally meant
aa a place for some historical inscription, or bas-reliel, similar to those