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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎522r] (1048/1278)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (635 folios). It was created in 1924. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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KAR—KAR
515
olher attempts, however met with failure : though it is evident that modern
engineering would accomplish it without difficulty by dams and tunnels.
It is further unlikely, looking to the volume of the water in the Karun, and
the numerous tributaries by which it is subsequently fed, that the river level
would be lowered one inch thereby at Shushtar. Leaving the Galgushak
the stream, a few miles further on, enters the Dirigan valley, in which it is
increased by the waters of the two remarkable springs of Marbarreh and
Kulungchl. The former appears, from the foot of the Zardeh Kuh on the
right, as a river some 20 feet wide and 3 to 4 feet deep. Th s stream runs a
course of 12 miles before joining the Karun. Continuing, the river enters
the Binisgun valley at 40 miles; and shortly after cuts its way for 3 or 4 miles
between the Kuh-i-Kaisari (10,500 feet), on the right and the Kuh-i-Luisi
(11,000 feet), on the left, whose respective peaks are not 2 miles apart. This
gorge, known as the Tang-i-Kaisarf, presents in many parts a sheer wall of
4,000 to 5,000 feet in height. Emerging into the valley below, it receives
the waters of two streams, called the Duab, from the right and rising from
the Kuh-i-Chari. Two miles below this point it is crossed by a temporary
wooden bridge, of a span of 50 feet and a narrow footway 6 feet in breadth
called the Pul-i- All-Kuh ; although the village of the same name is some
3£ miles farther down stream. Again at Rustami, 6 miles below, it is
crossed by a temporary wooden structure, near the remains of a large
and ancient stone bridge, and just below which it is fed by the fine spring
of Sard Ab. This spring gushes out of the rocks J mile away and
pours as a foaming torrent straight into the Karun. Five miles lower
it is crossed by a stone and mortar bridge at the village of Kaj (6,010
feet). This is a structure of one pointed arch built of stone and mortar.
Four miles beyond, and after a course of some 75 miles, it meets the Ab-i-
Behishtabad. This considerable stream, which represents the drainage ol
the whole of the Chehar Mahali plateau, has several sources. Its three
principal sources are the Ab-i-Junaqan, the Ab-i-Jehan-bin and the Ab-i-
Shalamzar. All three unite before the stream enters the Tang-i-Darkash
Warkash, at the south-west extremity of that plateau. In forcing its way
through this remarkable ravine it falls 600 feet in a course of 6 miles ;
and passes under the bridge at its exit from the gorge just above the village
of Behistabad. This structure is also of one pointed arch with a 30-foot
span and is of stone and mortar. Two miles farther down it runs into the
Karun, of which it is considered to be one of its main sources, both having
run an almost equal course of about 75 miles to this point.
The united waters now form a river which represents the drainage of
8,000 square miles of country, and which is unfordable at any point beyond
this. The river now takes a general southerly course and shortly rushes
through another deep rift, some 10 miles long, with almost perpendicular
Walls from 1,000 to 1,500 feet high. About 3 miles above Davazdeh Imam,
which is 500 feet above it on the right bank, it is crossed by a well built stone
and mortar bridge (5,480 feet) of two arches. For these few miles it runs
through a valley with some pasturage, but only to tear its way again
through a tremendous rift, known as the Tang-i-Ardal. The whole scenery
about here is one mass of stupendous surface convulsions. The river zigzag
with several acute bends through erpendicular and overhanging scarped

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The item is Volume III, Part I: A to K of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (Provisional Edition, 1917, reprinted 1924).

The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

The gazetteer includes entries on towns, villages, districts, provinces, tribes, forts, dams, shrines, coastal features, islands, rivers, streams, lakes, mountains, passes, and camping grounds. Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, administration, water supply, communications, caravanserais, trade, produce, and agriculture.

Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.

The volume includes an Index Map of Gazetteer and Routes in Persia (folio 636), showing the whole of Persia with portions of adjacent countries, and indicating the extents of coverage of each volume of the Gazetteer and Routes of Persia , administrative regions and boundaries, hydrology, and major cities and towns.

Printed at the Government of India Press, Simla, 1924.

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1 volume (635 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 637; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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