'Report on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for the Central Persia Telegraph Line' [‎24v] (53/300)

is practically nothing to write about from this point till Noh Gurabaz is reached
at 18} miles. The road is excellent and firm, over a firm gravelly sandy fiat
plain and keeps a south-easterly direction, ever descending. 1 note that at
miles the villages of Lordisran and Shuja, respectively on the right and
left, or south-west and north-east, about 2 miles off, are passed, while at 10-48
Bambeez, also on the south-west, is seen 2 miles off. A dry ab ambar at 11*74
completes every, point visible on the road. The water is brackish throughout.
Non Oumbaz to Akda.
Date.
No. of
March.
Boute.
Intermediate
Miles.
Total
Miles.
toil
5th October 1898
5
Akda, 3,662 feet.
24:23
99-05
The road from Noh Gumbaz continues gradually descending in a south
easterly direction over flat gravelly dese rt, with hardly any shrub on it, and is
monotonous in the extreme." At 4 miles, a dry torrent bed 40 yards by one foot
is crossed, and the telegraph line, which has kept on the left, or north-east, is
now on the right, or south-west. A second small torrent btd is met at 6 miles,
and just before this point the telegraph line again crosses the road to the left
and keeps on this side to Akda. A dry ab ambar is passed on the south-west
at 11 miles, and after this there is practically nothing till Chah Nao is reached
at 14-20 miles, lying on the left of the road. This is a small village in a fort
and has a supply of slightly brackish water in a tank. Slightly undulating
ground is traversed till 17-04 miles, where there are a few tamarisk trees grow
ing in a nullah. The line crosses to the right at 17’918, hut again goes to the
left at 18-153, at which point another dry ah ambar on the right is noticed. I
measured some of the telegraph spans here and found they varied between 90
and 110 yards. At 20 06, the first village seen since Noh Gumbaz is passed,
lying 6 miles to the right, or south-west, at the foot of a small range of hills.
It is called Mazreh Noh. Close to the road on the left at 21J miles, the village
and gardens of Skahrabad begin, which, though separated from it by nearly 3
miles and with the intervening gardens of Kosheabad, may he looked on as a.
suburb of Akda. Those gardens end at 21-683, at which place there is a pond
of sweet rain water, of which the animals drank freely, this being the first sweet
w r ater met with since Nain, a distance of 40*233 miles. At 22’060, the road
bifurcates, the left one going to Ardikan, vm Shamsabad, and the right to Akda.
A line of slightly brackish water Kanats flowing to Hosseinabad, one mile to.
the left, or north-east, is passed at 22-653. The gardens of Kosheabad begin at
23-425 and end at 23*785, and hound the left side of the road. In this short
distance, 6 or 7 lines of sweet water Kanats are passed. The houses of Akda
begin at 23*790, and at 24-23 the walled Kaleh or towm is reached. The Chap-
par Khaneh and the caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). are on the extreme S. E. end on the left.
The telegraph line runs through the town and emerges on to the right side of
the road at its south-east end.
Akda to Pa Gondeh.
Date.
No. of
March.
Route.
Intermediate
Miles.
Total
Miles.
6 li
6th October 1898
6
Pa Gondeh, 3,592 feet.
13-38
112-43