'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [‎243r] (490/610)

Take Route No. 1 to Kamard caravansarais a mile beyond
Jajarud bridge and branch off North East via Kamard, Lavasan^
and the Talab ridge to Lar. Surface is very good and gradients-
easy.
Route No. 4. From Tehran to Chalus via Nur and Pul.
A fair summer route but like Route No. 3 is laborious, as
it intersects valleys running West to East and climbs three
ranges. It gives access to the same regions as Route No. 3 and
is only used by about 300 mules belonging mostly to the *Pul
district, in stage 4.
From Tehran it goes down to Lashkarak and follows up
the Jajarud byOshan, stage 1, to Pasham, 2J miles above
Ushan, where it branches up a side valley to the North West:
by Migun and Darbandisar to the Dizin ridge.
From the Dizin it descends to the headwaters of the Laura
(upper Karaj) flowing West to Gachisar; It goes down this-
valley past Valatru (stage 2 ) and branches up the Varingru
valley to the foot of the Sutak ridge, which it crosses and
descends along a stream rising under Shahzadeh Kuh down
to Nisind, stage 3, in the upper Nur valley.
From Nisind it crosses the Kurdu ridge to Mikhsaz near Pul
and follows the tributary from Mikhsaz down to the Chalus
valley at Pul-i-Zughal, where it meets Route No. 5.
Gradients are all severe as far as Mikhsaz in stage 4.
Surface is average and is worst for 4 miles up a difficult
precipitous defile from Migun in stage 2, and best from Mikhsaz to
Pul-i-Zughal, stages 4 and 5.
Vegetation begins in stage 4 on the North side of Kurdu and
“ qishlaq ” in stage 5.
Villages are numerous in the Jajarud valley, stages 1 and 2 Supplies
(Migun (300 houses) is the largest), and in the Pul plain, stage
4, where supplies should be available for 1000 men and 600
animals at 2 days’ notice, reduced to 200 men and animals
just before harvest. Stage 5—no supplies are available and
requirements must be carried or collected previously, if large
from Kalardasht * 1 , 8 miles West, for not more than 100 men
1 The Sutak pass is closed early by snow and ‘ charvadars ’ from the Pul
district then go to Tehran vid Malakchashmeh and Naftab ridges to Kamarbun,
Turkubashm ridge to Duna and Kandavan, Houte No. 5.
1 See Route No. 6.