'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎389r] (782/982)

the greater part its length this water-course forms the boundary between
the Gulf Ports district of Haiat Daud and the Ears district of Shabankareh.
Its bed, where it is crossed by the route between Deh Kuhneh and Chah-
ruschi, is about 150 yards wide, and in May is almost dry.— (DeBode —•
Wells—Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
RUD-I-ZARD (1)—
A river in Khuzistan ; it waters that part of the town of Ramuz adjacent
to the mountains lying to its south-east by irrigation canals. Two miles
south of Ramuz, as the Mahur road leaves Kuhneh, the plain becomes more
open and grassy, and covered with flocks and herds and Arab and Lur camps.
Here the Rud-i-Zard, a rapid stream, flows over the plain in several branches,
and 12 miles south of Ramuz effects a junction with the Jarrahi river
which then, skirting through tangled ravines, the western spurs of a rocky
range of hills, emerges some 20 miles south of Ramuz into the alluvial
plains which stretch to the Karun and the sea. The watershed of a stony
slope, running west from these hills on the right bank of the river, forms
at this point, 12 miles south-south-west of Ram Hormuz, the boundary
between the Bakhtiaris and the territory of the Shaikh of Muhammareh.
It is also 1 called the Alai. It is crossed three times on the road from
Kaleh-i-Tul to Sar Asiab.— {Baring — Burton.)
RtJD-I-ZARD (2)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A hamlet of 10 huts on the right bank of the Ab-i-Zard and is 1 mile to
south of and 3 miles to west of the point where the ’Arabistan-Isfahan road
touches that river ; it stands on the edge of a stony plateau of small
extent, adjacent on a few patches of wheat. On the left bank of the river
are plateaux seamed with deep ravines and a low mountain rising to the
east, on which and adjacent slopes are thorn trees and yellow grass
(Bwrtow, 1903.).
RUDKHANEH-I-ASUL—
A stream, which contained salt water in March 1907, drains the Dalan-
Jaihun valley, flowing south of the Kuh-i-Rasul and obtaining access to the
Kuristan plain via the Tang-i-Rasul {q.v.).—Wilson and Cruickshank, 1907).
RGDKHANEH-I-KUSHK-I-BEHARO—
Name of a tributary of the Kur river from the east.—(GVoAame, 1908.)
rCdkhaneh-i-rltdAn—
A torrent, dry in the hot weather, draining the basin formed by
Kuh-i- Hormuz, Zad Mahmud, Huvin, Guniz and Gishu, through the
Rudian Pass into the Kuristan plain. Salt pools found in March 1907. A
stream, dry in the hot weather, flowing from Kirman and Kashu, which
drains the south slopes of the outlying spur of Kuh-i-Zad Mahmud, joins
the torrent one mile north-west of Tang-i-Rudian.—( Wilson and Cruickshank
1907.)
RtDKHANEH-I-SH0R, vide RtD SHUR.