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r quantities. Also,
), grapes, apricots,
5 is one particular
from four mountain
nd is good.
Lvan serai, which is
aneh.
ople are Seyads and
80. Summer is hot.
the gardens outside
Very little snow,
look on work as a
iarn itheir livelihood
utelligent, but not
we passed.
jre are many houses
Noh Gumbaz, has a
aleh for the Tofang-
two large Abambars,
Phe other was dry
rain water annually,
o, 20 people, sweet
rorks'a mill. Bread,
but any amount of
anats; nothing else.
;ight 3,592 feet.
; straw 300; and a
in quantities. Also,
Qne large Abambar;
Bourj kiln brick.
m., 83. Hot; mild
t does not lie.
Pa Gondeii— coniitiued .
People ... Quiet Persian peasants ; very friendly.
Remarks ... JEn routt, we saw—
Shamsabad, 70 people ; 2 kanats—one sweet, one brackish.
Supplies in limited quantities. Plenty of figs, pome
granates, cotton and maize.
Seyud Mohamed, 120 people ; 2 kanats—one sweet, one
brackish ; bread, barley and fruit in small quantities.
Haftatek, no people, only cultivation.
Sarv, 80 people; 2 kanats, slightly brackish ; bread, barley
straw in small quantities.
Aliabad, 20 people; no supplies ; water slightly brackish.
Mehter, 18 people; 2 kanats, slightly brackish ; little wheat
. and barley.
Mirza Hakeem, 12 people; one kanat, brackish. No
Cliaffa, one Chappar Kbaneh; one caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). . No-
. thing else.
Ginnatabad, 6 people. No supplies. One kanat, brackish.
*Wi October 1898.
Ardakan.
Height 3,435 feet.
Governor
...
Adl-ed Dowleh.
Population
...
10,000 town alone; with suburbs, 15,400.
Crops
fWheat 25,WO; barley 25,000; cotton 30,000; pistachio
... J 10 . 000 . Pomegranates, apricots, turnips, etc., all in
1 abundance. The cotton and pistachios are exported to
L Shahrud, hence to Russia via Astrabad.
Supplies
Bread, wheat, fowls, milk, e^gs, chickens and everything
s in abundance ; mutton, beef, fruit (excellent). Nume-
L rous cows and sheep.
Water
C 37 kanats. 3 sweet only, viz., Sadrabad, Mazreh Saif,
j Ab-i-Baghistan , others are brackish and are principally
L used for irrigation.
Houses
1
f Sun-dried bricks; some burnt bricks in good repair.
Great many Bad-Geers or ventilators about 6 by 12 by
6 feet on roofs, which are flat. Flourishing and impor-
L tant place.
Transport
J
i
r Mules very few.
Camels 200, at 2 krans per diem.
Donkeys, a few.
^Oxeu do the work here.
Labour
...
200, at 15 shahies up to noon; about 1J krans per diem.
Climate
fTemp.—Noon, 90; 6 p.m., 82. It was very hot here in
J the shade, 90°, and in the sun 105°. In mid-summer, I
i should say it is.like Kashan. About one month’s snow
L in winter.
People
b 7—13
( Pew Europeans seem to have come here, and quite a crowd
< of people came out to our camp. They were quiet and
( polite, but inquisitive.