‘Military report on south-west Persia, including the provinces of Khúzistán (Arabistan), Luristán and part of Fars.’ [‎120r] (244/470)

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Route No. 1— contd.
From Muhammerah to Tehran, 8fc. —contd.
21
Time.
Xames of towns, villages, &c.
Distasces in
MILES.
!nierme-|
dii'te.
Total.
Remarks.
P.M.
1-50
Zalpov
7,640').
(elevation
22
415
Tillage ; barometer 22‘76''; tempera
ture (in room) 65°. The Kuh-i-Ros-
bun (Roswand) a conspicuous hill joining
in with the Bakhtian ranges, bears 40°.
General Remarks .—The road after entering the hills is a mule track over a succession
of huge rounded undulations, with slopes up to 25°. The soil to Kal’a Madia is a granular
felspathic sand, and beyond it generally a loose shale ; clay occurs in patches ; the track is
generally hard and firm ; little rock is met with, and that shale; its chief difficulties con
sist in crossing the numerous suow rivulets running in narrow deep gullies, a few of the
worst of which only are bridged.
A heavy fall of snow occurred about the 9th of April and blocked the road ; this fall was
an unusually late one. This year the road was closed for three months by snow ; it is usually
closed for one month only in mid-winter. Snow is said to lie 6' to 7’ deep at times. In
Zaleon every other man is marked with stnall-pox, a disease said to be very prevalent at times.
Provisions and supplies, scaixe, especially firewood. Huts, as usual, of mud, but with rooms
fairly high and of some size altogether superior to those of many Indian villages.
21 6-5 I Zaleon ~ | Barometer 22’8"; thermometer 40°.
The track winds up a broad valley;
soil, clay; wheat just showing above
ground.
Barometer 22° 65'' (7,790'). Descends
towards the gorge seen in a direction of
75° to break through the Rosbun Range ;
first descent steep, over clay ; becomes
Crosses a rich valley fronting the Tang-
i-Tura, known as the Mlrza-Khatir; road
in good order and easy; soil a sandy
clay.
Gul-i-Zard, a large village, lies 1 mile
to the southward, up a side valley.
Julia, a large village, lies Ij miles to
the northward. The lie of the valley is
340° and 170°; villages occur in it at dis
tances of | mile apart. Two miles to the northward low undulations close in the valley ; 3
miles to the southward hills border it; they rise to a height of about 600' over it; their
slopes are steep and barren.
A.M.
25th April 1884.
6-5
Zaleon
...
6-35
i
i i .
e, and winds round the shaly lull side.
7-15
/ -oo
j 7-50
...
8-5
8-30
8-45
Crosses the Bamini stream flowing to
wards the gorge,barometer 23 - 4" (6,890').
Ci’osses a small stream and passes the
mound “ Bamini.”
By bridge of logs crosses the Ab-i-Tura
or Ab-i-du-ab, 10' wide, flowing in a
bed 15' deep.
The district was called Parr-i-Hussar and Burukh-i-Kassoz. It grows no trees or shrubs
except the few poplars round the villages.
Kassoz or Kesoz is hounded on the west by the hilly country of Sariband ; on the south
by the valleys of Silakhor or Silahur, Sarowand, Barbanid and Jopalag ; on the south-east by
Kamarah ; all in the Kurujird district; to the north and east lies the district of Chaharni in
the SultanabAd district.