'Appendix to Routes in Persia. Section II' [‎23v] (46/86)

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Route No. 17.
Gawarua to Harunabad.
Authority and date. —Burton, August 1897.
No. of
stage.
Names of stages.
Distances, in
MILES.
Rbmabks.
Inter
mediate.
Total.
1
Baeza Plain .
Pass through Gawarra and cross the Zimkan river,
drained by a scanty stream and flanked by
broad with a foot deep current; the path then
ascends a cultivated valley (south-east) i mile wide,
— j low wooded hills. At 2 miles the vallev narrows to
a gorge which traverse for a few hundred yards; the path then crossesthe stream and, the valley
again widening, follows tip its right bank, passing the village of Yu want, 30 houses, at 2f miles.
At 4.v miles cross a ravine with a small stream somewhat steeply and, the hills to either hand
terminating, enter a broad cultivated valley ; pass Simani hamlet at 5 miles ; miles to the left
are the 2 villages of Tapagula in a cultivated valley running up to the slope of the Milamihan
mountain, cross the stream from it and at 5§ ascend cultivated slope to the village of feimani
5j miles, before reaching which a path to Harunabad diverges south-west up a side valley’
from here the road ascends very gently the broad valley of Simani, corn being threshed
(August), and reaches at 7^ miles the Barza pass, the almost inpercept ible watershed The boundary between adjacent drainage basins. bet ween the
Barzaand Simani valleys, (height 5,720). Here is some cultivation, and a small spring and nool
He just to the north side. Descend gently over the broad Barza plain on which graze man°v
tnousands of sheep end stoats in summer and at Qi rnil.,o :t„ i„..,„.. j -l , - J
. ^ - ........ v... ..uim inany
•. , , J oa f' s ln summer and at 9^ miles near its lower end reach ground for
camping near a conical lull. Near by is an Ilyat camp and a short way to the south-east
commences the Barasela valley at the head of fvhich is‘village of JelS, from which S
5550 < feet mPS SUpP leS P roCJrable * Caui P room ; wood, water and forage plentiful. Elevation
Bond throughout very good and, with little work at crossing of the Zimkan river and at
LS; 1 ?h PaSSab l l0 K tO e al1 Tn' r V T' e1 '’ "' ood a,,d throughout; supplies from the villages
noted on the road, but probably little procurable in winter. villages
Haeunabad
121
abad on the Baghdad-Karmanshah road.
221 Leaving the Barza plain turn south round the end
ot the 1 anj Sowar In the East India Company army and later Indian Army, an ordinary native cavalryman or mounted cavalryman. hill to the pass of the same
name ; to the left (north-east) lies Jeluan and the
. Barasela valley, down which is a path to Salar-
fo«*t tMclH Reach"«'araTaud bn *i «*'*
edge of a spur and ascend gently sotithWa smooTh ^ oss W / a,,d a n^ound the
here a patli continues on the same beaiWun annt T- ’ 7 ] u ' 0W 1l and S ra f Y val 'ey to 5| miles;
the one followed) to Harunabad Tnm ^ T ' i 1 “°T e X a e Y ( an d is probably better than
a mere (rack, Z descend a S p„rto Wfn^' lmr Y"? H ^ bci "S
here traverse south-east level grassy plateau i i!-n , S f U l 0 ’ raacbed at 7 miIes - ri ' om
over a steep and bad slope almost imm-T v 11 rT T ® niiles when drop abruptly
the broad plain of Harunabad. Trave^e it soiPb 01 ] ^ 11 ani “? als 1 c wltbout improvement, to
Ilyat camps arrive at Harunabad at 12^ mil = H s,ul ' lin p ^ . tJle rocky bills and passing
Karmanshah road, which see (Koute No/l). C aiUnabad 18 a sta S e on the main Baghdad-
tm with
Ha
Authority and dot
No. of
stage.
Names of slap
1 Tang-i-Shoi
which a path from th
Kurds, runs north an
standing corn, and :
cross a second ridge
small stream crosses
bough huts in summt
some stony nndulatic
east-north-east across
Chulak on the wester
able amount of cultiv
strike north-east acre
grazing, and nomad i
which stands nearer
Road throughou
as noted. Practicall
Tang-i-Showan ha:
mountain ; supplies
Ar-t-Merk
Siah Cha
summits ^ mile apar
ravine with a strea
oak forest.
The path is now
opens out and the
upland valley of Bai
at 4 miles reach at it
The descent to
plain ; the path ther
by easy gradients so
water, flocks of goi
now a broad track, t
the Aliawar pass.
From here cros
sionally interruptec
of &iah Chagd at \
Here is camp r
cultivated and soul
No fuel except cow<