'Appendix to Routes in Persia. Section II' [‎37r] (73/86)

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irection shaly
then ascends
ice traverse a
f cultivation,
small stream
on the banks,
t the head of
appearing to
iver a rooky
ivation, karez
tony bed and
m and water:
any hundreds
o the north,
rass in spring
>ath crossing
s 4 ony ravine
and enters a
les narrows,
? head being
)arra Daraz).
descend, in
sast direction
vest through
all oaks, and
he ridge at
tions south-
stony ravine
precipitous-
3 dangerous
i thick oak
Khusnkadul
dul stream,
abundant in
3 . Supplies
he summer;
},380 feet,
is in parts
;he right of
i spring and
nl river and
ins a stream
d is rough
by the left
o the ridge
Rah and is
‘urther side
:n improves
) the south-
Route No. Zb~contd.
Dehbala to Dizful—could..
Distances, in
No. of
stage.
MILBS.
Names of stages.
Inter
mediate.
Total
Rbuabxs.
of Minflr ni KO l u + ievei grassy spur to miles, here $ mile to the left is the village
ot Alinai of 50 bough huts, named from a pillar of crumbling masonry ■ a sorimr of
to the right of the road. Here descend and cross a dry ravine and traveme’low,broken grassy
lulls to 9 t miles, when enter a grassy ravine and descend it towards the Kurtu river dronuinJ
into the gorge by a most steep and dangerous path for 300 yards. The river is reached at lof
miJes ; it contains an ample stream of clear water in a bouldery bed 20 yards wide : the gor*m
narrow through s eep, grassy hills. Height 2690'. Ascend a bluff above the left bank S
steeply,!lie path m places over smooth and dangerous rocks, reaching the summit and tm-ni™
down a narrow myine to 1 If miles. From here traverse s^uth-easfa i4 ny P ain some of
the containing scanty streams of water ; patches of cultivation on the stony ground %
] 4 miles, when descend m southerly direction towards the domed Ziarat of Nasrudin • at ]4°
m \ 0 ' e ' Sl ! n i vall 7. over 8m °oth rock slope and crossing irrigation channel! and
?eet. Water ieach Nasnidm ’ funded by irrigated land, at 15| miles. Eley. 2,590
Camp room, water and good grazing ; heavy crops in spring and autumn •
numbers of sheep and goats and some cattle ; fuel scanty. ’ r ^ e
Road good and piacticabie for iaden animals except as noted at the passage of the mss
ofPiada l ah and the Kurtu river, where it is most difficult and dangefous. g P *
„ oot G e dTt intemt “* sprins mUoh COrn “lo-g road, no fuel; water
Zabinabad
10 |
62f
Cross the valley to the south side and, passing
through the encircling hills, turn east. The
path then traverses a narrow, cultivated valley
., . ,,. , between low hills, and, ascending a ravine at
miles emerges on to a cultivated plateau which it crosses in an easterly direction to Si miles
immediately below to the right (south) lies a deep-sunk, narrow valley with some cuffi’
vation and water. Descend gently towards a ravine lying to the left hand, which is reached
of miles ; the path crosses steeply its deep gorge which runs south containing a clear stream
of brackish water. Crossing grassy, broken ground on the further side, south-ekst, reach bv a
stonj ascent and narrow path a cultivated plateau at 6* miles. The path traverses it south to
/ miles and then turning south-east down a ravine crosses a broad cultivated plain • a mile
o the left are broken, rocky bills; at 8f miles ascend to a ridge, the deep-cut gor<re of the
Mema river lying to the left; the path now crosses a cultivated plateau southerly and again
turmng south-east along a flat spur descends to Zarinabad on the right side of the gortre
or the Mema river at 10g miles. Elev. 2,592 feet. ° °
Camp room ; good grazing in spring and early summer; water from the river which
contains a large stream.
Supplies dependent upon the crops and the presence of the large flocks of sheep and
goats owned by the Ahkhani Kurds who usually camp here to the number of 50 houses from
April to October.
Road practicable for laden animals and good and easy, except at the crossing of the
ravine at 5f miles which is steep and narrow ; at that point only also is there water on the
row. Grass abundant almost throughout; no fuel.
Behabu
river at 2f miles.
lOf
73i
Cross a stony plateau, patches of cultivation,
dotted with thorn bushes, in a southerly direc
tion for a mile and then gradually turn south
east and east, reaching raviny ground near the
. Descend through broken ground to the river ; here is a large camp of
as, 100 tents, from the neighbouring Ziarat of Saiad Ibrahim. Cross the Mema river, here
ir apid stream of good water 30 yards X 6" flowing through a deep gorge of red earth and
The path then crosses a spur above its left bank steeply to the Khurbazun stream
ascends above left bank to a plateau on which stands the Ziarat of Saiad Ibrahim, 5 miles,