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Route No. 1 — contd.
From Muhammerah to Tehran, Sfc. —contd.
0
Time.
Distances in
miles.
111
iodines 01 towns, villages, &c.
Remarks.
«z;
Interme-
; diate.
Total.
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ral easy passages occur in the range.
A.M.
9
9-15
Harow, a large village, lies 1 mile to
< the southward. Hoad wide and good
since 7 a.m.
... 1 Enters the Tang-i-Tura, 1,000 yards
! wide, soon narrowing to 300 yards, bor-
+ vn mi i l ji ,, „ dered on either hand by barren, nrecini-
tous bins. That to the northward ,s called the Kuh-i-Kasack ; that to the southward the
Ku i-i-Lagwar, they use 300 to 400 over the valley, and are said to join in with the
fhe S’- T hl S ' lh °) e t ^ C so ' ,tl '' vard are snow-topped. The Tura stream flows under
the Kuh-i-Lagwar, and is 600 yards distant.
Here the road from Hamadan joins it. The telegraph line, 1 wire, now follows the road.
9-25
9-50
10-45
22
Arud
...
11 Tura (elevation 6,490'). 14
429
Small village, 600 yards to the south
ward ; road good, 20 feet wide ; descent
gentle ; barometer 23 5" (6,79o').
Skiits the left bank of the stream from
20' to 60' wide ^current rapid ; bed stony
and 30' deep in places, with a width of
fiom 50 to 2(X) ; willows border its banks.
Valley widens and is cultivated ; wheat,
giapes, fruit, &c., grow here to perfec
tion.
A \illage of about 300 inhabitants with
one water mill ; firewood more plentiful
t ian heretofore. The river is here spann-
^ ed by a 5-arched masonry bridge, about
Its parapet is in ruins. A road runs along the right
40 yards long, fit for one line of traffic,
bank of the stream.
. The Tang-i-Tura here ends and o wlil ' ? ’ Ta ^ be readil >' lnade a cart track,
direction of 320° and 140°, commences A thnnd < ( T 3, e ^’ 800 yards wide, with a
pom a • A thunder ' stor m, with rain, occurred at noon.
46t/i April 1884.
a.m. I •
= Tue1 429
22
5-25
5-35
6-0
for fuel
south are
Wurray-Hisar
j Barometer 23'75'; thermometer 43°.
. ^ 01 ds a stream 30' wide, 2' deep, flowing
in a direction of 140°, and turns down a
well cultivated valley, 1 mile wide.
A large village f a mile to the south-
waid, at the foot of the hills. Willows are
plentiful and fruit trees abundant; wheat
Road skirts the Ab-i-Tnri a romVl d ^ i' 1 height. Dung is stacked
mow Clad; thoi toThe i ,5 ? t °, 100 wide ' thehills i Anile to the
to the north, i a ,„,le d.stant, are lees elevated and are
intersected by numerous vi 1 Ip-o v , e north > 2 a mile distant, a
steep. The valley increases in vddtlffrom-i, aU hills ^ Wn and
numerous. The road is of a good width ; soil, day 1 68 ’ ^ V1 la ° es> i 3 mile apart, are